Madhya Pradesh High Court Allows Re-Test For Petitioners Affected By Power Outage At Indore & Ujjain Centres
The Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom directed the Nationwide Testing Company to carry a re-test of the NEET-UG 2025 examination for the candidates who had been affected by an influence outage on the centres in Indore and Ujjain.
Justice Subodh Abhyankar handed the order permitting a batch of writ petitions filed by the affected college students.
Because the petitioners had been put at an obstacle for no fault of theirs, the Courtroom noticed {that a} re-test was needed.
“This Courtroom is of the thought of opinion that the petitioner/s has/have made out a case for interference underneath Article 14 as her/they, with out there being any fault on their half, was/had been put right into a disadvantageous place as a consequence of energy outage, which situation didn’t prevail within the different examination centre and even in the identical centre the place among the college students had been sitting at favorable spots having enough pure mild,” the Courtroom acknowledged in its order.
The counselling will probably be topic to the results of the re-test, the Courtroom additional clarified.
The Courtroom clarified that the petitioners’ rank will probably be thought of solely on the idea of the re-test. The aid is out there to solely these petitioners who filed the petitions earlier than June 3, 2025, the date of publication of the provisional reply key.
To establish the problem which the petitioners confronted, the bench, in the course of the listening to, switched off the lights of the Courtroom. The Courtroom famous that the presence of huge home windows within the Courtroom allowed the passage of a restricted quantity of pure mild, in a dim method. Nonetheless, the examination centres could not have such giant home windows, the Courtroom famous, inferring the difficulties confronted by the petitioners.
