NEET-UG 2024 Hearing LIVE: 'No Re-NEET', Supreme Court Refuses To Order Retest

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will resume the hearing in the NEET-UG 2024 case. A bench led by Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud will hear the plea of candidates seeking re-examination for all. The bench comprising CJI, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Monday asked the Director, IIT-Delhi to set up a team of three experts that would go into a particular question of Physics asked in the NEET-UG 2024 examination and submit a report on the correct answer by Tuesday noon. Follow the latest updates on the case hearing from the Supreme Court and response from IIT-Delhi director here. 

NEET-UG Hearing in Supreme Court LIVE Updates

05.13 pm- Supreme Court has ruled out re-exam plea and said re-NEET will not be held. Read full details here.

05.04 pm- Bench has reserved the judgement. 

04:54 pm- Bench is dictating order.

03.41 pm-Hooda : CBI specifically cautiously uses the word 'so far' we have not gone beyond Patna and Hazaribagh. CBI is not so novice that it will accept the statement of the accused arrested 'so far' ...it is an evolving situation. Investigation is going on, can they file an affidavit saying that hence for them there will be no investigation to see whether it has gone beyond ? If today a judgement come and tomorrow this Sanjiv mukhya is arrested along with the mobile  showing he had sent it to 200 people in Sikar

03.38 pm- Petitioners' advocate Narendra Hooda: The whole world is watching, paper has been leaked, mobiles not found, sanctity of the exam is finished and mere figures are being thrown at this court.

03.28 pm- CJI: the IIT Report is staring us in the face, assuming we are not setting aside the whole exam, what if we say that option 4 will be the correct answer, but for anybody who answers option 2 there will be no negative marking? Talk to the director of NTA.

03.15 pm-SG: those who relied upon an authorised text of the NCERT and gave the answer should also not get the disadvantage of the it

J Misra : the question here is not about rote learning, you have to have the fundamentals clear. So far as the stable atom is concerned it has to be a radioactive element ....being a science student I am a little bit aware of it. 

CJI: and though we gave the director time until 12 PM, before 10 o'clock we had the answer on the table. It would have taken probably 10 seconds to answer the question

02.44 pm- SG reads from the report stating that the images of the two trunks at the control room of Oasis School at 7:53 AM on May 5 was different from the image of the trunks positioning when the officials had subsequently gone to open the trunks . The theft had happened between 8:02 to 9:23 AM, that is corroborated by the CCTV Footage.

02.22 pm- SG : the accused got only 2 hours to mug up the questions which is reflected in the result they got. 

SG:  there are 2 candidates with 581 marks (in the group of beneficiaries )

02.12 pm- SG: That is why I gave the figures, because the time available for them to impart whatever was stolen was hardly 1-2 hours , the beneficiaries also did not fair well 

CJI: earlier we thought, after he takes the photographs and comes to the centre at 9:30 AM and 45 minutes were given to the problem solvers. No the problem solvers got the question paper at 8:30 itself

NTA: at 9:34 AM he comes out at transmits as per the statements 

02.08 pm- The chief justice asked, “How do we conclusively say that these scanned copies are sent to no other centres other than the ones in Hazaribagh and Patna?”

01:00 pm- NTA narrates the series of events that happened in Oasis Public School, Hazaribagh. The Solicitor General on behalf of NTA tells the court that the question papers were taken out from the control room and photographed, the CCTV footage reveals.

10.46 am- Hearing begins in the Supreme Court. The bench said that as per IIT-Delhi's report on ambiguous Physics question, the option number 4 is the correct one. 

10.15 am-  A Delhi University professor on Monday said there was only one right answer and not two to a controversial physics question that was asked in the NEET-UG 2024 examination that led the Supreme Court to direct IIT- Delhi to set up a panel of experts to resolve the impasse. The question reads: “Given below are two statements: Statement I: Atoms are electrically neutral as they contain equal number of positive and negative charges. Statement II: Atoms of each element are stable and emit their characteristic spectrum.

"In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: (1) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

(2) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.

(3) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

(4) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.” Professor Gaur, who teaches at Dayal Singh College, said option four is the only correct answer.

This is apparently contrary to the submissions advanced in the top court that there were two correct answers.

09.41 am- Earlier, the bench asked senior advocate Narender Hooda, representing the students, for data to support claims of a "systemic failure" in the exam's conduct. The bench noted that while some wrongdoing was evident in Patna and Hazaribagh, this did not alone indicate systemic failure. Hooda stated that the NTA and others acknowledged the paper leak and its spread via social media.

09:31 am- The bench reproduced the contentious question in its order, stating, "To resolve the issue regarding the correct answer, we believe an expert opinion from IIT Delhi is necessary. We request the Director of IIT Delhi to form a team of three subject matter experts. This team should submit its opinion on the correct answer to the Secretary General of this Court by 12 noon on July 23, 2024," the order stated.

09.21 am- The bench noted submissions indicating three groups of candidates: one received minus five for a correct answer, another got four marks for a different correct answer, and a third group skipped the question out of caution.

09.11 am- During the hearing, the bench, including Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, considered arguments that a Physics question had two correct answers. They heard that some candidates who chose one of the correct answers received four marks.

09.09 am- Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, leading a bench, on Monday instructed the petitioners seeking a re-test to use data from the National Testing Agency (NTA) to demonstrate a "systemic failure" in the exam's conduct, arguing that the paper leak was extensive and not confined to Patna and Hazaribagh.