Delhi High Court Refuses Plea Seeking To Scrap NTA And Probe Into 'Discrepancies' In NEET UG Re-exam
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a petition seeking to scrap the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Wednesday, August 19. The plea reportedly sought direction to scrape the premier national-level testing organisation under the Ministry of Education and a probe into alleged discrepancies in the NEET UG re-examination, Bar and Bench reported.
The national agency conduct major national-level entrance examinations for admissions and fellowships in higher educational institutions in the country.
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The court noted that the prayers made in the plea which was being treated as a public interest litigation (PIL) after being transferred from another court, concerned personal reliefs. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia was hearing plea filed by two NEET aspirants – Rishi Kailash and Fatima Kounser, seeking to scrap NTA and preventing it from conducting any further examinations of national importance.
Appearing for the Central government and the NTA, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta refuted allegations of any malpractice or discrepancies in the NEET re-exams. Mehta stated that there has been no tampering with the OMR sheets either, as alleged by the petitioners.
The petitioners, while demanding the scraping of NTA, also sought directions to appoint an autonomous institution to conduct such exams. The petitioners claimed that Kailash appeared in the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination and found several discrepancies in the process, including tampering of the OMR sheets.
The aspirants also challenged NEET-UG 2026 re-examination results, the re-evaluation of the petitioners’ scorecards and the awarding of marks for a dropped question. However, the court said it was not ready to entertain the plea in its present form. The petitioners then sought liberty to file fresh pleas with appropriate reliefs. Hela said that he will withdraw the plea and file a separate writ petition and a PIL for institutional reforms in the conduct of public exams like the NEET.
