Hearing in SC on pleas deferred to July 18
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned till July 18 the hearing of a clutch of petitions seeking cancellation, re-test and probe into alleged malpractices in the conduct of NEET-UG 2024 as the responses of the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) were yet to be received by some parties.
Amid the festering row over the all-India examination, the top court noted that separate affidavits filed on Wednesday by the Centre and the NTA, which conducts the test, have not been received by counsel for some of the petitioners. “The further hearing shall be on Thursday (July 18),” a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, however, said they have served their affidavit to the counsel for the parties. During the brief hearing, counsel for the petitioners sought listing of the pleas on July 15 but Mehta said he would be unavailable that day.
