The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed four petitions challenging the results of the NEET-UG re-examination conducted by the National Testing Agency. Finding no discrepancies in the evaluation of the candidates’ original answer sheets, the court also imposed a fine of ₹5,000 on each of the petitioners.
A division bench of Justice N.B. Suryawanshi and Justice A.D. Shinde, sitting at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, heard the pleas filed by candidates Hricha Deshpande, Soham Gavte, Atharva Jagtap and Rahul Aruna Nag. The petitioners had alleged that the Re-NEET results declared by the NTA were incorrect and that errors had occurred during the evaluation of their Optical Mark Recognition answer sheets. Their claims were based on copies of OMR sheets that they submitted, some of which were later found to be tampered or AI-generated.
Taking note of the seriousness of the allegations, the court had earlier directed the NTA to produce the original answer sheets of the concerned students from Delhi in sealed envelopes. Accordingly, these were brought before the bench and examined by the judges themselves in the presence of the students, their parents and their lawyers. After a thorough scrutiny, the court found that the marks awarded and the results declared by the NTA matched the answers recorded in the original sheets. No errors or discrepancies were detected in the evaluation process.
A petition regarding the NEET exam results was filed a few days ago in the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court, prompting the court to order the submission of the petitioner's answer sheet. During today's hearing, the NTA submitted the answer sheet to the court. The marks…
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Senior Panel Counsel for the NTA, Rohit Sarvagya, represented the Central Government and the testing agency and placed the original documents and records before the court. Two of the petitions were dismissed after the examination of the original OMR sheets, while the remaining two were withdrawn by the petitioners themselves. The bench imposed a penalty of ₹5,000 on each of the four petitioners, to be paid to the NTA, observing that the petitions had been filed on the basis of incorrect and unsupported claims.
The re-examination had been conducted on June 21 after the original NEET-UG paper held in May was compromised due to a leak. Results of the re-test were declared in July. Prior to the court proceedings, the NTA had cautioned students against submitting fake or AI-generated OMR sheets for scrutiny and had warned that such actions could invite legal consequences. The court’s order has given judicial validation to the Re-NEET results declared by the NTA.
