No OMR tampering in NEET-UG retest: SG Tushar Mehta tells Delhi HC
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that there was no tampering with the OMR sheets of candidates of the NEET-UG re-test. Appearing in a PIL on the issue, Mehta said that "loose kind of drafting and arguments" alleging "large-scale tampering" in the re-test ought not be allowed as they would set a "narrative". "There is no tampering in any OMR sheet. None of this has happened. Don’t sensationalise," he submitted before a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia. The bench was hearing the PIL by two NEET-UG candidates seeking additional marks for themselves, as well as "similarly affected candidates" for certain dropped questions, and scrapping of the National Testing Agency (NTA). One of the petitioners also alleged that her OMR sheet had been tampered with. The PIL sought the constitution of an expert committee to look into the concerns over irregularities in the examination raised by the petitioners. Mehta stated that the .
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