NEET-UG 2025: SC Refuses To Allow Counselling For Candidates Seeking Retest
The apex court denies provisional nod for counselling to two candidates affected by power outages during exams, but lists petitions for hearing on July 25
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has refused to grant its provisional nod for appearing in counselling of NEET-UG-2025 to two candidates, who faced a power outage in their examination centres in Madhya Pradesh.
A Bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and AS Chandurkar, however, listed petitions of Navya Nayak and S. Sai Priya for further hearing on July 25, the PTI reported.
The candidates have challenged the July 14 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court refusing to order a re-test for them.
The counsel for the petitioners submitted that a notification was issued for the counselling and sought provisional permission to participate in it.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the National Testing Agency (NTA), said one of the prayers in both the petitions for a re-test couldn’t be allowed as it would affect lakhs of students, who wrote the examination. The Bench declined to issue interim orders and deferred the hearing.
On July 16, the apex court agreed to hear the plea of the candidates who appeared in the examination and suffered a power outage at certain examination centres.
A single judge of the high court directed the NTA to conduct retest of the NEET-UG-2025 examination for candidates affected by power outage at certain centres in Indore and Ujjain.
The division bench of the high court, however, set aside the single judge order on the plea of the NTA but cautioned against any recurrence in future.
It took note of an expert panel report opining that though there was power outage at some centres, there was natural light to enable candidates to write the test.
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