Supreme Court dismisses plea challenging final answer key and result of NEET-UG 2025 exam
The Supreme Courtroom on Friday disposed of a petition difficult the ultimate reply key and results of NEET-UG 2025 examination held by the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA).
The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice R Mahadevan delivered the decision on a petition filed by candidate Shivam Gandhi Raina, alleging that there was mistake within the reply given by the NTA to at least one query (Query No.136, Code No.47).
As per the petitioner, he secured an All India Rank of 6783 and a Common Class Rank of 3195. If the inaccurate reply was corrected, he would get 5 extra marks, bettering his place.
The petitioner sought route to the NTA to appropriate the alleged error within the reply key as per the authoritative NCERT texts and revise the outcomes accordingly. He additional sought a keep on the counselling course of as an interim aid.
Noting that the petitioner could also be proper on precept that there could possibly be a number of appropriate solutions, the Apex Courtroom mentioned that it might not intrude with the examination matter.
Showing for the petitioner, Senior Advocate R Balasubramaniam contended that the Apex Courtroom interfered within the 2024 NEET-UG examination and ordered the correction of errors based mostly on an skilled report given by IIT-Delhi.
The Senior Counsel mentioned the decision would have an effect on the profession of many college students. One mark distinction would imply so much. He requested the highest courtroom of the nation to represent an skilled committee to establish the matter.
The Apex Courtroom mentioned it can not intrude in a person matter in a nationwide examination. The interference in 2024 was because of widespread grievances relating to the discrepancies and shortcomings within the conduct of the examination, it added.
Filed by means of AoR Sriram Parakkat, the petition talked about the query in dispute, which requested:
“Cardiac actions of the guts are regulated by:
A- Nodal Tissue
B- A particular neural centre within the medulla oblongata
C- Adrenal medullary hormones
D- Adrenal cortical hormones
Select the proper reply from the choices given under:
- A, B and D solely.
- A, B and C solely.
- A, B, C and D.
- A, C and D solely.”
The petitioner submitted that possibility 3 was the proper reply as per the NCERT Class XI Biology textual content e book.
