New Delhi. : A group of medical students has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the court's August 2 verdict, which dismissed their earlier writ petition seeking the cancellation of the NEET UG 2024 examination due to alleged widespread malpractices. The petitioners had requested a re-test of the medical entrance exam, but the apex court had denied this request.
In their review petition, the students argue that significant new developments have emerged since Chief Justice DY Chandrachud ruled against the retest for NEET UG 2024. The petition claims that newly uncovered evidence points to a “systemic breach/malpractice” occurring across various states. This evidence, they contend, challenges the basis of the August 2, 2024, order by demonstrating that it is impossible to distinguish between those who benefited from the malpractice and the honest students. The petition emphasizes the need for the judiciary to reconsider the case in light of this new evidence, given its immense public importance.
One of the key pieces of evidence cited in the petition is a "City-Centre wise data analysis" (included as ANNEXURE P-), which shows that out of 4,738 examination centers, approximately 60 centers had a success rate of around 80%, with four of these centers exhibiting an improbable success rate above 85%. Notably, 39 of these 60 centers were concentrated in a single city—Sikar—raising suspicions about the fairness of the results. The petition contrasts this with the average success rate at 2,417 other centers, which was below 50%, and argues that such high success rates should be expected in metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai, rather than in smaller cities.
The students also allege that 16 mobile phones reported as lost after the disclosure of the paper leak were recovered from a pond in Dhanbad. Additionally, the petition raises concerns about the alleged negligence in awarding grace marks, issues with OMR sheets, the prediction of the paper leak, and other related matters.
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