Allahabad HC Rejects PIL To Stay NEET-UG 2025 Results Declaration, Quash & Re-Conduct ‘Physics’ Section Of Paper
A vacation bench of the Allahabad High Court today rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking to stay the to-be-announced results of NEET-UG 2025 and to quash the physics section of the paper and order re-conduct of the same.
A bench of Justice Saurabh Lavania and Justice Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi dismissed the PIL plea filed by Deenbandhu Samgra Swasthya Avam Siksha Shodh Sansthan. A detailed order of the Court is awaited.
The PIL plea, filed through Advocates Moti Lal Yadav and Arti Rawat, alleged multiple irregularities in the Physics section of the NEET-UG 2025 exam (conducted on May 4, 2025), contending that several questions were either erroneous, out of syllabus, or copied from external coaching materials without due scrutiny.
The plea listed out several questions in the Physics section of the Test, alleging them to be absurd, factually incorrect, or directly plagiarised from flawed examples shared by a private coaching institute.
It further claimed that certain questions were beyond the prescribed NEET syllabus and that the paper disproportionately focused on obscure or minor topics while neglecting core syllabus areas.
It also alleged that the inclusion of these questions must have given ‘undue benefits’ to those who were taught the same by the Coaching Institutes. Hence, the plea stated that the test had ill intentions of giving an edge to the aspirants belonging to the Coaching Institute who taught such out-of-syllabus questions.
“That the inclusion of such an Out of Syllabus Question can never be out of Ignorance of the Paper Setter or by chance but might have been taught by some Coaching Institutes, and as such the aspirants of such Coaching Institutes will certainly be befitted out of it,” the plea argued.
Additionally, the petition raised concerns about a lack of transparency in the evaluation process, as it pointed out the alleged non-disclosure of answer sheets and significant disparities in results. The plea also contended that the candidates have the inalienable right to check and evaluate their answer sheets and compare it with others.
Accordingly, it prayed for the NEET Result to be published in its entirety so that everyone can compare their own performance and shortcomings with reference to the other aspirants.
Interestingly, the plea also highlighted unusually high percentages of top scorers in districts such as Sikar (Rajasthan) and Namakkal (Tamil Nadu), suggesting possible irregularities in scoring or the conduct of the examination.
Advocate Indrajeet Shukla, Addl CSC, appeared for the State
Advocate Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi appeared for the Director General of Medical Education and Training, Uttar Pradesh
