NEET UG 2024: NTA tells Delhi High Court it will seek transfer of all High Court cases to Supreme Court

The National Testing Agency (NTA) informed the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it will seek transfer of all the matters related to National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) undergraduate (UG) examination 2024 controversy to the Supreme Court..Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta appeared before a vacation bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna and said that the NTA will move a transfer petition before the Supreme Court.Mehta told the Court that petitions related to the NEET UG exams have been filed before several High Courts of the country and to ensure that there are no conflicting views by the High Courts, the NTA will request the Supreme Court to hear all such matters..Delhi High Court seeks NTA's stand on plea challenging award of grace marks in NEET UG 2024.The Solicitor General said that the NEET UG controversy can be broadly divided into three categories:.Petitions related to alleged leak of NEET UG question papers;Petitions against award of grace marks; andPetitions stating that multiple options were correct for one question..SG Mehta made the submissions in a batch of petitions related to the controversy surrounding the NEET UG exams 2024. After considering the submissions, the High Court took the statement on record and issued notice to the NTA.The petitioners told the Bench that the matter may be listed in July and if the NTA does not file for transfer of these matters to the Supreme Court, then petitioners will take the steps.The Court allowed the request and listed the matter for further hearing on July 5..On June 11, the Supreme Court ordered the NTA to respond to the plea leveling allegations of NEET UG paper leak. However, the top court had said that it will not stop counseling for admissions of students to the medical colleges.Media reports also state that an extraordinarily large number of candidates got a perfect score as per the results published on June 4.The candidates have alleged irregularities in the award of compensatory marks to students for loss of time.Notably, on May 17, a three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra had declined to stay the publication of the results of NEET-UG 2024.. Petitioners in the case were represented by Gauhar Mirza, Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas..Mirza was briefed by Abiha Zaidi and Suriti Chowdhary from Saaz Partners, who filed the plea.