Live Updates: SC dismisses review petition on NEET, JEE Main decision

The Supreme Court order on the review petition will be uploaded by evening, reports Bar and Bench. The order will clarify whether the review petition has been admitted or rejected by the Supreme Court.

Since this is an in-chamber consideration, the Supreme Court bench will either admit or dismiss the petition. The decision on admitting or dismissing the review petition will be pronounced by the bench as soon as the consideration is over.

The Supreme court has begun the in-chamber consideration on the review petition on its verdict on JEE Main and NEET. 

The Supreme Court bench will convene for in-chamber hearing on the review petition on the NEET, JEE Main verdict soon.

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, defending the Supreme Court verdict that allowed NTA to conduct exams in September, had said that a large number of candidates and parents wanted to take the entrance examinations.

On August 17, the Supreme Court dismissed the petition seeking postponement of NEET 2020 and JEE Main, scheduled in September. The PIL was filed by eleven students from 11 states demanding postponement of JEE Main and NEET 2020. The Supreme Court while dismissing the postponement petition observed that postponement of the NEET 2020 and JEE will put the 'career of students in jeopardy'. Nearly 25 lakh students have registered to appear for the national level engineering and medical entrance examinations scheduled to be held in September. 

Earlier students from all over the country protested and raised their voice to postpone the NEET and JEE Main 2020 to December. However keeping the students future and impact on studies Supreme Court gave orders to conduct NEET and JEE Main with well defined SOP on announced dates in September.

The JEE Main exams have started from September 1 onwards. On the first day, only 54 percent of registered candidates turned up for exams. By day 3, the percentage of students rose to 82%. NEET 2020 is set to begin from September 13.

The SC bench will do "in-chamber" hearing today, only Judges will be present. According to Advocate Sunil Fernades, no lawyer will be allowed to attend or argue. The judges will either dismiss the Review petition or list it before the open court for arguments, at any date after today.

PLEASE NOTE : #ReviewPetition Hearing tmr will be "in chamber" - only Judges will be present. No lawyer including myself will be allowed to attend or argue. 2. the judges will either dismiss the #Review tmr itself or list it before open court for arguments, at any date after tmr. https://t.co/ALElbIuzQk

— SUNIL FERNANDES (@hisunil) September 3, 2020

More than 8.58 lakh candidates have registered for JEE Main September session and nearly 16 lakh students have registered for the NEET exams.

Six Ministers of opposition-ruled states moved the Supreme Court on August 28 seeking review of its order permitting the Centre to conduct NEET and JEE entrance exams. The review plea has been filed by ministers from West Bengal (Moloy Ghatak), Jharkhand (Rameshwar Oraon), Rajasthan (Raghu Sharma), Chhattisgarh (Amarjeet Bhagat), Punjab (B S Sidhu) and Maharashtra (Uday Ravindra Sawant).

While the JEE Main first session is underway on the fourth day, which will be over by 12 PM. The Supreme Court three judnge bench will hear the case at 1:30 PM today demanding postponment of JEE Main and NEET 2020.