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The United Doctors Front connected Saturday (May 16, 2026) moved the Supreme Court of India seeking the modulation of the National Testing Agency (NTA) from a registered nine to a statutory assemblage established by an Act of Parliament to guarantee law and parliamentary accountability.
The doctors’ assemblage said the 2026 insubstantial leak was portion of a “recurring, systemic, and catastrophic failure” of the NTA successful conducting the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG)”.
“The NTA’s existent ineligible presumption arsenic an autonomous nine nether the Societies Registration Act, 1860, creates an accountability vacuum,” the petition filed done advocates Ritu Reniwal and Mahendra said.
The doctors’ assemblage said, dissimilar the Union Public Service Commission oregon the Staff Selection, the NTA was not straight answerable to Parliament. It operated nether the Ministry of Education, which shielded the bureau from nonstop CAG audits and mandatory Parliamentary committee probes.
“The recurrence proves that cosmetic administrative tweaks and adept committees similar the K. Radhakrishnan Committee are inadequate without a cardinal legislative overhaul,” the petition said.
The doctors’ beforehand sought the dissolution of the NTA successful its existent signifier and the enactment of a Parliamentary Act to make a caller investigating authority.
“This statutory displacement would guarantee nonstop Parliamentary oversight - the chairperson and functions would beryllium defined by law, making the assemblage straight answerable to the legislature. It would guarantee fiscal transparency done mandatory end-to-end CAG audits, statutory penalties for leaks and a legally mandated grievance redressal mechanics for students, portion eliminating outsourcing ambiguities by restricting the relation of backstage vendors successful halfway introspection functions,” the petition said.
NEET-UG constitutes the sole gateway for undergraduate aesculapian admissions successful India, straight dictating the world and nonrecreational futures of implicit 22.7 lakh students. The recurring compromise of this introspection was a nonstop battle connected the cardinal guarantees of equality and close to life/livelihood nether Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution.
‘Guess insubstantial racket’
Despite claims of high-tech safeguards via GPS tracking, AI-assisted CCTV, and biometric verification, the introspection was “compromised by an organised ‘guess paper’ racket. Forensic examination by the investigating agencies allegedly revealed that this “guess paper” (comprising 410 questions) contained a 100% lucifer for the Biology (90 questions) and Chemistry (45 questions) sections of the existent NEET-UG 2026 paper.
The petition said CBI FIRs confirmed that introspection worldly was circulated via integer platforms good earlier the trial date. This “systemic breach” led to the unprecedented full cancellation of the exam and fiscal exploitation of hopeless candidates.
“The implicit cancellation of the exam operates arsenic a ceremonial admittance by the authorities that its sanctity was breached astatine a systemic level, making it intolerable to segregate the beneficiaries of the fraud from genuine, meritorious candidates,” the petition said.
