No concrete evidence yet of rigging, paper leak in NEET: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan
On Friday, the Supreme Court issued notices to the Centre and the National Testing Agency on a plea seeking a CBI probe into the alleged malpractices.
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Union Education Minister Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that no concrete evidence had been found yet to back up claims of a question paper leak and other irregularities in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test.
His remarks came amid the Centre telling the Supreme Court earlier in the day that the grace marks awarded to 1,563 students in the entrance examination, which is conducted by the National Testing Agency for admission to undergraduate medical course, would be cancelled.
The court was hearing a batch of petitions alleging question paper leaks, the “arbitrary” awarding of grace marks and other irregularities in the entrance examination conducted on May 5.
On Friday, the Supreme Court issued notices to the Centre and the National Testing Agency on a plea seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into allegations of paper leaks and other malpractices.
“No concrete evidence of any kind of rigging, corruption or paper leak has been found so far in the NEET [National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test] exam,” Pradhan had said in a social media post on Thursday. “All the facts related to this are before the Supreme Court and are under consideration.”
Commenting on allegations of rigging made by the Congress, the minister added: “The kind of politics being done on this issue is only an attempt to spread confusion...
