On June 20, the top court sought the responses of the Centre, the NTA and others on a slew of petitions, including those seeking the scrapping of the NEET-UG and a court-monitored probe amid a mounting outrage over the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the all-India medical entrance test.Hearing separate pleas on the exam on June 18, the apex court said even if there was “0.001 per cent negligence” on the part of anyone in the conduct of the examination, it should be thoroughly dealt with.The Centre and the NTA had, on June 13, told the court that they had cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates.They were given the option to either take a re-test or forgo the compensatory marks awarded for loss of time.The NTA announced the revised rank list on Monday after issuing the results of the re-test held on June 23.A total of 67 students had scored a perfect 720, unprecedented in the NTA’s history, with six from a Haryana centre figuring in the list, raising suspicions about irregularities in the examination held on May 5.It has been alleged that grace marks contributed to 67 students sharing the top rank.The number of candidates sharing the top rank in the NEET-UG reduced to 61 from 67 as the NTA announced the revised results on Monday.
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