The top court, in another development, stayed the proceedings on the batch of pleas filed before various State High Courts in the same issue, after hearing the plea filed by the NTA and issued notice on the agency’s plea in connection with this year’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) exam.All the pleas had been tagged along with the pending pleas already filed before it for further hearing to July 8, when the Supreme Court would be open, over almost 45 days off, after summer vacations.There are more than 50 petitions, including a fresh petition filed by a group of 20 students, who had appeared in the medical entrance exam, in the Supreme Court, seeking a direction for scrapping of the NEET-UG 2024 exam and an apex court-monitored probe by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) or any other independent agency into the alleged irregularities in the test held on May 5.Recently, the NTA had told the apex court that score-cards of 1563 candidates who “got grace marks” in the NEET-UG 2024, will be cancelled and the students will have the option to reappear for the exam.The NTA had also further elaborated to the apex court that a committee has been constituted to review the results of over these 1,563 candidates who were awarded “grace marks” to compensate for the loss of time suffered while appearing for the exam.It is to ne noted that NEET-UG examination, conducted by NTA, and is the process for getting admitted into MBBS, BDS and AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
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