MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed that the results of two candidates who took the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) on September 12 will not be declared.
The interim order by a bench led by Justice Ramesh Dhanuka came on a petition by Solapur residents Vaishnavi Bhopale and Abhishek Kapase.
Their petition said they were to receive a question paper and an answer booklet with the same code and 7-digit serial number in a sealed cover. The invigilators, though, had already opened the sealed covers. The petitioners received answer booklets with a different code.
Their advocate Pooja Thorat argued as a result they would secure zero marks as their answer sheets will be assessed according to the matching code on the question paper.
The test centre wrote to the National Testing Agency, which conducts NEET, admitting a mistake occurred when test booklets to six students fell. The judges issued a notice to the NTA and the ministry of health and directed that till the next hearing on October 7 they will not declare results of the petitioners. They directed to “produce the original question papers and corresponding answer sheets’’ for the court to verify.
