Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking postponement of NEET-PG exam

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, August 9, 2024: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere in the NEET PG 2024 and said that it would not reschedule the examination.

While hearing the case, the apex court bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said, “We will not reschedule, there are two lakh students and four lakh parents, we can’t put the future of two lakh on the behest of five petitioners.”

The CJI further said, “We all live in an extremely diverse nation.”

The bench which also comprised of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that it cannot order postponement of the exam, just a few days before the exam is scheduled to be held.

“Now postponing NEET PG ? How can we postpone such an exam. Nowadays people just come asking to postpone the exam,” the bench stated.

The plea in the NEET PG exam case was filed by Vishal Soren, who claimed that candidates were facing difficulties in reaching their exam centre.

As per a report by the Bar and Bench, the allocation of test cities was made on July 31 and designated centres were to be declared on August 8, which leaves candidates with very less time to travel to the respective centres for the exam on August 11, it was contended.

Further, the exam is scheduled to be conducted in two batches and the formula for normalisation is unknown to the candidates thereby causing apprehensions.