#NEET question paper leak: Supreme Court refuses to intervene

The Supreme Court today refused to intervene in the petition seeking police probe and status report into the alleged question paper leak of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)..A Bench of Anil R Dave and Nageswara Rao JJ said that the court cannot monitor the conduct of the exam..Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde appeared for petitioner Anshul Sharma, who had moved the court seeking a police probe and a status report..The matter was listed as item 19 in court 2, and was mentioned at 10:30 am by Hegde, who said that the matter should be heard today, considering the urgency. The court agreed to hear the case at 2 pm..When the case came up for hearing in the afternoon, the counsel for CBSE submitted that the Uttarakhand police had sent them an email of the question papers seized by them. They had then compared the same with the questions papers and found that they did not match. All these details were placed before the RM Lodha committee overseeing the conduct of NEET..The Court, then, proceeded to hear Hegde who submitted that the CBSE had taken a similar stand in the AIPMT leak last year, though eventually a re-examination was ordered by the Supreme Court..He further argued that the material forwarded to CBSE by the Uttarakhand police was done within three to four hours after a raid and more material would have come into their possession subsequently..“Your lordships have struggled hard to bring it (NEET) here. It would be bad if this happens in the very first exam.”.The court, however said that since the police is already investigating the case, it will not interfere..“We don’t want to monitor this. This court is not for this purpose.”.The court then allowed the petitioner to withdraw the petition, with the liberty to approach the Uttarakhand High Court.