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The Delhi High Court has asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond to a NEET-UG 2025 candidate’s plea seeking compensatory marks on the ground of being mentally disturbed due to the defective biometric verification system at the exam centre.
In a June 20 order, the court issued notice to the NTA on the candidate’s plea. The court also ordered the preservation of the CCTV recordings, logbook entries and any other registers at the test centre.
The candidate appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) (UG) 2025 exam on May 4 at Trishla Devi Kanohar Lal Balika Inter College in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
The candidate claimed that during the authentication process, prior to the exam, the biometric verification did not work at the test centre and he was made to file an application requesting permission to enter the examination hall.
He claimed being permitted to the exam centre only five minutes before the commencement of the test.
While the examination was underway, he was asked to step out for the biometric verification and made to submit an application in both English and Hindi to the centre superintendent, which led to considerable mental disturbance to him while giving the exam, his plea said.
The candidate was stated to have scored 98.86 percentile in the exam.
The petitioner sought certain reliefs, including compensatory marks in the medical entrance exam and preservation of CCTV footage from the test centre concerned.
As the counsel informed that counselling would tentatively commence from July 1 onwards, the court posted the hearing for June 27.
Published – June 26, 2025 09:54 pm IST
