No NEET UG 2025 re-test for MP candidates as high court stays single judge order

In a turn of events, a division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court stayed a single judge order directing the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct a re-exam for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET UG) 2025 candidates affected by power outage at Indore and Ujjain centres, as per a Live Law report.

A bench of Justices Vivek Rusia and Binod Kumar Dwivedi reportedly passed the order while hearing a writ petition filed by NTA which submitted that multiple appeals regarding the relief given to the NEET petitioners are pending and expressed inability to follow the single judge order until the pleas are heard.

The next hearing has been scheduled for July 10, 2025. Notably, the division bench of MP HC upheld the part of the single judge order where it said that NEET UG 2025 counselling conducted on or after July 1, 2025 shall be subject to the outcome of the petitions, as per the report.

Justice Subodh Abhyankar had granted the relief to the petitioners finding them at a disadvantage without any fault and ordered that their revised ranks in the NEET UG 2025 re-test shall be considered for MBBS, BDS admissions.

NEET result 2025

Earlier, the HC had allowed NTA to declare NEET UG 2025 results for all except for 11 exam centres in Indore which saw power outage, after putting the result declaration on hold temporarily, when the NTA counsel prayed for permission to declare results. The court was hearing petitions filed by students who claimed their performance in the medical entrance exam held on May 4 was severely impacted by a power failure at exam centres in Indore.

12.36 lakh candidates qualified in the exam and Mahesh Kumar emerged as All India Rank (AIR) 1 holder. NEET result 2025 was declared on June 14 for admissions to MBBS, BDS admissions in medical and dental colleges across the country.