Supreme Court Declines NEET-UG 2025 Answer Key Plea, Tells Student To Move High Court
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SC refused to hear a plea seeking early release of NEET-UG 2025 final answer key. Justices said such petitions must go to High Courts first.
New Delhi: Today, on June 13, the Supreme Court of India on Friday declined to hear a petition that demanded the final answer key of the NEET-UG 2025 examination be released before the announcement of results.
The Court made it clear that such matters should first be brought before the respective High Courts and not directly taken up under Article 32 of the Constitution.
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A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan was hearing a plea filed by NEET-UG aspirant Najiya Nasre.
She had approached the apex court alleging that errors in the provisional answer key affected her performance.
She wanted the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish the corrected final answer key before the result so that students could identify and challenge mistakes in advance.
However, the Supreme Court dismissed her request, saying that allowing such petitions at this level would open the floodgates for thousands of similar cases.
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra noted,
“Why didn’t you approach the High Court first? There will be lakhs of cases if this is allowed.”
He emphasized that the matter does not require the Supreme Court’s direct intervention under Article 32.
Justice Manmohan also explained that students unhappy with their marks after the results are declared still have legal remedies available.
He added that changing the existing system of releasing the final answer key after the results would cause more confusion.
As he put it,
“If we do this, there will be lakhs of petitions.”
The petitioner, after hearing the Court’s opinion, agreed to withdraw the petition. The Supreme Court permitted her to approach the appropriate High Court instead.
No directions were issued to the NTA, which conducts the exam for admission into undergraduate medical courses.
While recognizing that the student’s concerns were not baseless, the Court also pointed out the practical difficulty in accepting her demand.
Since over 22 lakh students appeared for NEET-UG 2025, any change in procedure at this stage could delay the entire examination and admission cycle.
The NTA currently follows a consistent practice: it first releases a provisional answer key and invites objections.
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After considering the objections, it then releases the final answer key, which is usually just before the results. This method ensures that all valid corrections are accounted for during evaluation.
In her petition, Najiya Nasre had invoked Article 32 of the Constitution, claiming that the provisional answer key was riddled with errors and this amounted to a violation of Article 14 (Right to Equality). However, the Supreme Court clarified that no constitutional rights had been violated at this stage of the process.
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