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A petition was filed successful the Supreme Court connected Wednesday (May 13, 2025) seeking a absorption to the Centre to “replace oregon fundamentally restructure” the National Testing Agency (NTA) pursuing the cancellation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate exam for aesculapian admissions successful 2026 successful colleges crossed the country.
The NTA cancelled the exam conducted connected May 3 owed to a question insubstantial leak and wide irregularities successful the behaviour of the exam. Over 22 lakh students had appeared successful the nationalist exam. NTA has announced a re-test.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe has been ordered into the leak. The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) pressed for the request for a “more robust, technologically precocious and autonomous assemblage for conducting NEET”.
It said the tribunal should intervene straight and name a high-powered monitoring committee chaired by a retired apex tribunal justice and with members including a cyber information adept and a forensic idiosyncratic to supervise the re-conduct of the exam and guarantee determination were nary further leaks.
“Direct the reconduct of the NEET-UG 2026 nether the strict scrutiny of a judicially appointed high-powered committee until an interim oversight committee constituted by the apex tribunal has verified and certified the information of the revised introspection process,” the petition sought.
The plea, filed by advocator Tanvi Dubey, urged a absorption to the authorities to mandate the “digital locking” of question papers and a modulation to a computer-based trial (CBT) model, arsenic suggested successful the aftermath of erstwhile leaks, to destruct the carnal chain-of-custody risks.
FAIMA further asked for a absorption to the CBI to record an probe study earlier the apex tribunal successful 4 weeks. The report, the petition, indispensable person details of the networks operating down the leak; arrests made; persons charged; and the advancement of the prosecution.
The petition said the NTA indispensable forthwith people the centrewise results of the NEET-UG 2026 to let transparent detection of abnormalities.
