Supreme Court trashes tampering charge in NEET-UG answer sheets – Education News
Allegations of tampering of NEET-UG OMR sheets made by six candidates in the Supreme Court turned out to be a damp squib with the top court on Monday dismissing the petition finding no reason to doubt the National Testing Agency (NTA) of any wrongdoing.
A bench of justices Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and AS Bopanna dismissed the petition filed by Prabhnoor Singh and five others after being convinced by the response filed by NTA that the OMR sheets were not tampered with as it is signed by the candidate and counter-signed by the invigilator.
The NTA informed that before approaching the Court, five of the petitioners were shown the original OMR sheets with their signatures in the presence of their parents, who verified it to be true. This happened on November 8 while the petition was filed in the top court on November 24.
Terming the allegations made against NTA to be “false, baseless and without merit”, the NTA affidavit filed through advocate Rupesh Kumar said, “On perusal of the original OMR answer sheet of petition 1 and scanned copy of the OMR forwarded to him through email on October 14 would show that the copy of OMR claimed to have been provided by respondent (NTA) which has been filed by the petitioner and the screenshot of the email filed are forged and fabricated.” However, the Court refused to order enquiry into the allegation of fabrication.
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