‘Will affect lakhs of candidates’: Supreme Court, HC refuse NEET UG 2025 re-exam, result revision pleas

Both the Supreme Court and a high court declined to play with the lives of thousands of students as they declined different petitions regarding the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET UG) 2025. While SC refused to decline a plea challenging NEET UG results 2025 over alleged errors in questions, Madras High Court dismissed a petition for NEET UG 2025 re-test over power outage.

A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan said the apex court had dismissed a similar petition two days ago and it can't deal with individual requests. "We have dismissed identical matters. We agree there might be multiple correct answers. But we cannot interfere in an exam which is given by lakhs of candidates. It's not an individual's case. Thousands of students will be affected," the bench said.

The petitioners also sought a stay on the NEET UG 2025 counselling process.

NEET UG 2025: Plea over power outage in Chennai centres

On the other hand, the Madras High Court dismissed an appeal from MBBS aspirants against a single judge order refusing NEET UG 2025 re-exam, saying any such move would severely affect over 20 lakh students.

12 candidates had moved the court against a June 6 order where the HC had dismissed a batch of petitions that sought to stop the National Testing Agency (NTA) from declaring the NEET result 2025 and direct it to hold a re-exam for candidates who had experienced power outages at four centres in Chennai, where they appeared for the examination.

A division bench of Justice J Nisha Banu and Justice M Jothiraman observed, "It is to be noted that the integrity of the exam is particularly ensured through human supervision including the presence of the centre superintendent, invigilators, NTA-appointed observers and city coordinator. All these officials have examined and confirmed that the examination was conducted smoothly. A factual enquiry was undertaken by the NTA and the enquiry was conducted with regard to the field verification through the reports of the examination functionaries and an independent statistical analysis of candidate performance data," the bench said.

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An analysis by an independent expert committee, the HC noted, found no statistically significant difference in the number of questions attempted, confirming that the alleged power outage did not materially impact candidate performance. “Furthermore, NEET UG 2025 is a time-sensitive and large-scale national examination," the bench added.

“if any re-examination is permitted, the same would severely affect more than two million candidates. Therefore, we do not find any reason to interfere with the order impugned and the writ appeal lacks merit and the same is liable to be dismissed. In the result, this writ appeal stands dismissed," the Madras HC ruled.

No re-NEET UG 2025 for MP candidates

Recently, a division bench of the Madhya Pradesh HC stayed a single judge order directing the NTA to conduct re-NEET for candidates affected by power outage at Indore and Ujjain centres.

12.36 lakh candidates qualified in the medical entrance exam and Mahesh Kumar emerged as NEET UG topper 2025. NTA declared the NEET result 2025 on June 14 for admissions to MBBS, BDS admissions in medical and dental colleges across the country.