NEET row: Supreme Court stays Madras HC order for grace marks
New Delhi, July 20 (IBNS): The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Madras High Court order awarding grace marks to the students who wrote National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018, in Tamil, media reports said.
The decision of the top court was taken days after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) moved it opposing the Madras High Court verdict delivered on July 10, directed the board to award 196 marks to NEET students who took the medical entrance exam in Tamil.
According to the high court order, the CBSE has to award four marks each for 49 questions to roughly 24,000 examinees on account of ambiguities in the Tamil translation of the said questions. The Board was given two weeks to bring out a fresh list of qualified candidates.
CBSE conducts NEET on behalf of the Health Ministry. The exams for 2018 were conducted on May 6. The results of the examination were released on June 4.
The Madras High Court directive came on the ground that there were errors in the translation of 49 questions in the paper.
The court order came in response to a public interest litigation filed by CPI(M) MP T K Rangarajan.
In his PIL Rangarajan had complained that the keywords in the questions were wrongly translated, thus creating a great confusion among the examinees.
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