Plea To Cancel NEET-UG 24 : Supreme Court Poses Queries To Centre & NTA- Live Updates (July 18)

Bench resumes.

CJI asks NTA counsel about the Rajasthan HC order which the NTA cited to open a new window for fresh applications.

Bench rises for lunch break.

Nedumpara calls IIT Report "a lie".

CJI objects : Don't just use adjectives against a premier institute. Give us core facts

CJI : If the HC order was only for one student, how did you open the window for 15,000 new students? Out of those 15,000 students, how many are there in the one lakh eight thousand?

Mathews Nedumpara : The discussion is going off..the only issue is whether re-test is needed...but discussion is on something else..

CJI : No, this is the very heart of the issue.

CJI : Is there any skew between those who registered between April 9 and 10?

CJI : Those who changed the centres, how many of them made it to one lakh eight thousand? Two, is there any skew in favour of those who registered on April 9 & 10.

NTA : 15,000 new applications were received..as far as change of centre, petitioners have focused only on Godhra.

CJI : Do we have any data on how many students, out of one lakh eight thousand, had changed their cities? We would like to see the distribution and was the change to any of the suspected areas?

NTA : Centre allotment is only two days before the exam. So nobody knows which centre is going to be allotted.

CJI : How many corrected the fields within the window?

Hooda : They opened a window for new applications in April 9 & 10...they say it was based on an order of Rajasthan HC. But HC order was only for one candidate.

CJI : When the candidates fill the application forms, they have to opt the city or centre?

NTA : City.

CJI : So what they can change is only the city. No candidate can choose the centre. Centre is alloted by the system.

NTA : 15,000 students utilised the window for corrections.

CJI : Out of that 15,000, how many changed their centres? How many days the window was there?

CJI : In the entire exam, how many students changed their centre? How many out of 23.33 lakhs.

NTA counsel : In the name of corrections, they change centres. During that process, only the possibility of changing happens. We will never know it. As of now system doesn't catch that.