NEET-UG 2025 | “We Can’t Tackle Individual Examinations”: Supreme Court Rejects Plea Over Exam Question Error

Supreme Court docket At present (July 4) dismissed a pupil’s plea difficult a NEET-UG 2025 query error. Court docket stated it can not intervene in mass exams based mostly on particular person petitions.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket of India heard a petition filed by a pupil who appeared for the NEET-UG 2025 examination. The coed instructed the Court docket that there was a mistake in one of many questions within the examination.
He requested the Court docket to repair the error, revise the end result, and cease the continued counselling course of for now.
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The matter got here earlier than a bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice R Mahadevan. They listened fastidiously to what the scholar needed to say. Nevertheless, the judges stated {that a} related case had already come to the Court docket earlier.
“An identical matter has already been dismissed.”
-High Court docket asserted
The lawyer who represented the scholar stated that this case was not like the sooner one. He defined that the downside was associated to a selected query within the NEET paper.
“The problem I’m elevating relates particularly to Query No. 136, which had 4 reply choices.”
-counsel for petitioner
The Court docket then gave a robust reply. The judges stated that this sort of downside doesn’t have an effect on just one particular person, however lakhs of scholars who take such aggressive exams.
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Additionally they added that the Court docket can not intrude in these large-scale exams.
“That case was an identical. Whereas we acknowledge that there may very well be a number of appropriate solutions, intervening in an examination taken by lakhs of candidates isn’t justified this isn’t nearly one particular person.”
-Court docket
Even after this, the scholar’s lawyer tried to persuade the judges. He stated that this error may have an effect on many college students, not simply the one who filed the petition. He additionally reminded the judges that in 2024, the Supreme Court docket had ordered a revision of outcomes when there was the same mistake within the NEET examination.
“This issues the way forward for many college students—it’s not nearly one particular person. A lot of college students may very well be impacted. In 2024, this Court docket had directed a revision of ends in the same scenario.”
-petitioner
After listening to all arguments, the bench gave a well mannered reply to the lawyer.
“Thanks.”
-Bench replied
The lawyer then made one other request. He stated that the Court docket ought to type a particular committee to look into the error within the reply key.
He additionally claimed that he had submitted the appropriate reply, and the official reply key was clearly incorrect.
“I’m requesting the formation of a committee. I’ve offered the proper reply, and there’s a transparent and apparent error within the official reply key.”
-petitioner
However the Court docket stood agency.
The judges clearly stated that they can not deal with points associated to particular person questions in such huge entrance exams.
“We will’t sort out particular person examinations”
-Court docket whereas dismissing the petition
In the long run, the Supreme Court docket determined to dismiss the petition and didn’t grant any of the requests made by the scholar.
CASE TITLE:
Shivam Gandhi Raina v. Nationwide Testing Company
WP(C) 620/2025
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