Refusing to step in and monitor the investigation, a bench of Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said: “We don’t want to monitor”.
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The Supreme Court today refused to intervene in the petition seeking police probe and status report into the alleged question paper leak of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). If the police come across other material, they will take appropriate action.
“The Uttarakhand Police also arrested five persons around 3:30 am from a resort in Ramnagar” Also, the combined results of NEET-I and NEET-II will be declared by August 17. “The Lodha panel (to oversee the functioning of the Medical Council of India) has also looked into it”, it said, leading to the withdrawal of the plea.
The court, which was hearing the plea of NEET aspirant Anshul Sharma seeking a probe into the alleged leak of question papers, asked him to move to the high court, if need arises, in the future. They had then compared the same with the questions papers and found that they did not match.
Supreme Court agreed to hear the petion on leak of question Leak of question papers of the exam conducted on July 24. of NEET.
Lawyer Sanjay Hegde, who represented Sharma, argued that the CBSE had similarly denied any wrongdoing in the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) in 2015. Around 4,500 candidates had appeared for the exam in Haldwani.
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Assailing the submission by the CBSE, senior counsel Hegde appearing the petitioner candidate wondered what kind of material police would have got within three hours of its initial investigation.
