In an affidavit filed before the top court on Friday, the Central government’s Ministry of Education maintained that cancelling the NEET UG exam and hold fresh exam would not be rational.
“In the absence of any proof of any large-scale breach of confidentiality in a pan-India examination, it would not be rational to scrap the entire examination and the results already declared. It is submitted that in any examination, there are competing rights that have been created whereby the interests of a large number of students who have taken the examination without adopting any alleged unfair means must not also be jeopardized,” the affidavit said.
The affidavit was filed in response to a slew of petitions alleging irregularities in NEET UG including leak of question papers.
Source: Barandbench
