NEET Result 2021: SC Allows NTA To Declare Results For UG Entrance Exam, Stays Bombay HC Order

The Supreme Court has directed the NTA to declare the results of NEET 2021 UG results.

Supreme Court (File Photo)

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed the National Testing Agency to declare results of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Under Graduates (NEET-UG) 2021.

The apex court also put a stay on the Bombay High Court order which had directed the NTA to hold the declaration of results. 

A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai stayed the Bombay High Court's recent order asking the NTA t conduct re-examination for two aspirants whose question papers and OMR sheets had got mixed up at a centre in Maharashtra.

The bench took note of the submissions by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who represented the NTA and said, "We stay the high court judgement. The National Testing Agency can announce the results."

We will decide what happens to the two students upon reopening (after Diwali vacation). In the meanwhile, we issue notice and file a counter. But we cannot hold the results of 16 lakh students, the bench said, reported PTI.

What was the Bombay High Court Order?

The Bombay High Court on October 20 directed the NTA, set up in 2018 for conducting NEET for admission to undergraduate medical courses, to hold a fresh exam for the two students and declare their results along with the main results of the test conducted on September 12.

The high court noted that the test booklet and OMR sheet of two medical aspirants -- Vaishanavi Bhopali and Abhishek Shivaji got mixed up at the examination centre before the start of the test and ordered that they be given fresh opportunity to appear, reported PTI.

The NEET Entrance Exam was conducted on September 12, for "16,14,777 candidates, involving 3,682 centres in 202 cities, 9,548 Centre Superintendents/ Deputy Superintendents, 5,615 Observers, 2,69,378 Invigilators and 220 City Co-ordinators," the NTA said in the plea.

(With agency inputs)