Madhya Pradesh HC (DB) Stays Single Judge’s Re-Test Order For Candidates Affected By Power Outage
A Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday (July 1) STAYED the operation of an order of the single judge, handed on June 23, directing the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) 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.
A Bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi handed the order whereas listening to a writ enchantment filed by the NTA, whereby it was dropped at the Courtroom’s consideration that a number of writ appeals, each in opposition to the grant and denial of aid within the batch of petitions determined by the Single Decide, are more likely to be filed and the identical must be heard collectively.
It was additional submitted that till all such issues are positioned earlier than the Division Bench, the NTA can be unable to implement the writ court docket’s path for a re-testing of the restricted variety of petitioners who had been granted aid.
Being attentive to this submission, the Division Bench stayed the operation of the impugned order dated June 23, 2025, insofar because it pertained to the re-testing of the writ petitioners, until the following date of listening to ( July 10).
Importantly, the Division Bench additionally directed that the order of the Single Decide that any counselling completed on or after July 1, 2025, shall be topic to the result of the petitions, will proceed to stay in pressure.
Background
On June 30, a bench of Justice Subodh Abhyankar had allowed a batch of writ petitions filed by NEET-UG 2025 candidates claiming to have been deprived because of energy failure at their centres in Indore and Ujjain.
Noting that the petitioners had been put at an obstacle for no fault of theirs, the Courtroom had remarked thus:
“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 because of energy outage, which situation didn’t prevail within the different examination centre and even in the identical centre the place a few of the college students had been sitting at favorable spots having ample pure mild“.
Curiously, to determine the issue which the petitioners confronted, the one choose had, throughout 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 might not have such massive home windows, the Courtroom famous, inferring the difficulties confronted by the petitioners.
