NEET-UG 2024: Supreme Court Declines to Halt Re-Test for Candidates Whose Grace Marks Were Revoked.
On Thursday, June 20, the Supreme Court refused to stay the re-test scheduled for June 23 for the 1,563 candidates who had been granted grace marks in the NEET-UG 2024 exam. The National Testing Agency (NTA) had revoked its controversial decision to award grace marks and instead offered the candidates a re-test option. A writ petition challenging the NTA’s decision to offer the re-test was filed and considered by a vacation bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and SVN Bhatti. While the bench agreed to issue a notice on the petition, it declined to stay the re-test. The petitioner’s counsel argued …