Bombay HC orders special NEET examination for two students once invigilators goofed up
The Bombay high court (HC) on Wed directed the National testing Agency (NTA) to conduct the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) anew for 2 medical aspirants – Vaishnavi Bhopale and Abhishek Kapse – from Solapur district as that they had received mismatching test booklets and answer sheets because of inadvertence of the invigilators.
The Bombay high court (HC) on Wed directed the National testing Agency (NTA) to conduct the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) anew for 2 medical aspirants – Vaishnavi Bhopale and Abhishek Kapse – from Solapur district as that they had received mismatching test booklets and answer sheets because of inadvertence of the invigilators.
The division bench of justice RD Dhanuka associated justice Abhay Ahuja directed NTA to provide the aspirants an advance notice of forty eight hours concerning the date of the retest and also the communication centre and to declare the petitioners ends up in 2 weeks. Bhopale and Kapse had rapt HC on September twenty four through advocate Pooja Thorat, seeking directions to NTA to re-examine them by holding a separate test. They expressed that after they had appeared for NEET at Shree Hindoo Narayan Gurukul International college at Solapur on September 12, their invigilators started giving test booklets and answer sheets to the twelve students within their category 5 minutes late. They else that the invigilators demanded the brochures and sheets. whereas Bhopale received a check booklet of Code 04 and answer sheet of Code P4, Kapse got test booklet of Code P4 and answer sheet of Code 04. They directly pointed it out, however the invigilators raspingly suppressed them by threatening them with dire consequences for inflicting nuisance and disturbance in the examination hall, aforementioned their petition.
NTA, however, informed HC through its counsel advocate Rui Rodrigues that it had been unable to search out an answer to the petitioner’s problem, prompting HC to order a re-examination of the petitioners.
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