The petitioners had approached the top court contending that the eligibility criteria had been modified by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) twice, clearly reflecting oversight and mismanagement on its part of not consulting state medical bodies in advance.
As a result of that, candidates did not get adequate time to prepare, it was submitted.
“Candidates should not be made to suffer because of fault on part of NBE. It is most humbly submitted that NBE issued the Impugned notice without checking with all the State Medical Councils regarding one of the most important aspect of eligibility,” argued the petitioners.
A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Dipankar Datta said that nothing prevented anyone appearing from trying again.
“Nothing in this world prevents anyone from trying again … It [NEET norms] is an evolutionary process. Sometimes it can go wrong,” said the bench.
Source: Barandbench
