Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 14
The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking quashing of the answer keys of some questions in the NEET(UG)-2019 examination, saying an expert body had duly applied its mind and the revised answers were issued.
A Vacation Bench of Justice Ajay Rastogi said courts were not experts in each and every subject and time had come when the interference in this arena should be stopped.
Allowing the petitioners — four Hyderabad-based students — to withdraw their petition, it granted them liberty to approach the high court for redressal of their grievances. The top court had yesterday agreed to hear the petition that claimed the answer key of five questions asked in NEET (UG)-2019 examination was wrong and the paper needed to be quashed.
The petition filed by four Hyderabad-based students — Kayathi Mohan Reddy and three others — said the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the examination, issued wrong answer keys and, therefore, jeopardised the career prospects of aspirants who sat for the exam.
The examination was conducted on May 5 and the official answer key was issued on May 29. On behalf of the petitioners, senior counsel AM Singhvi said wrong answer keys were given by the NTA. Five questions having four marks each had more than one correct answer or had an answer that was different from the answer key issued by the NTA, he said.
“All multiple-choice answers cannot be scrutinised by this court. We are not experts. We think somewhere some line needs to be drawn,” the Bench said, adding interfering with the answer key would mean that the SC had become an appellate body above the NTA.
‘No case of mala fide intent’
We see, an expert body has applied its mind and a revised answer key was issued. In some cases, the answers were corrected. There does not seem to be a case of mala fide intent. — Supreme Court
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