The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition filed by a group of six students alleging that their NEET-UG The answer sheets were tampered with and manipulated by the National Testing Agency, which conducts the exam. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna took on record the submission of the National Testing Agency (NTA) that after the students made their complaints, they were called to its office and shown their original answer sheets and they accepted that it was his. Answer sheet.
The bench said that the original answer sheet was signed by the students and invigilators and hence it cannot be said that NTA was involved in any kind of tampering or manipulation of marks. Prima facie it cannot be said that any act of tampering or manipulation was done in the back office of National Testing Agency (NTA).
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15.44 lakh candidates have attempted the examination, out of which six have appeared in this court. Dismissing the petitions, the bench said that the five have verified their OMR sheets shown to them. The bench took note of the submission of advocate Rupesh Kumar, appearing for NTA, that there is only one answer sheet per candidate which is OMR sheet and is available in their server.
As per procedure, Kumar said, a copy of the answer sheet was sent to all the candidates on their registered email ids, including six candidates who had approached the court saying they had not received it. During the hearing, the bench questioned the students as to why NTA would want to manipulate their results when it is ready to provide the originals. Senior advocate Manoj Swarup, appearing for the students, submitted that there was a glass partition and they were made to see the original sheet without touching it from the other side. He said that these OMR sheets can be verified only by touching, which we were not allowed.
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The bench, however, refused to agree with his contention and said that it was a bit far-fetched and was dismissing the petition. Swarup said that the NTA has accepted that the entire data base of the examination was transferred to a third agency and hence there was a possibility of tampering with the marks of these students. Students have claimed that there was a huge difference between the marks calculated as per the answer key published by NTA and their final marks declared on November 1 last year.
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