New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court Monday sought National Testing Agency's (NTA) reply on a plea claiming major discrepancies in the OMR sheets uploaded with regard to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET UG 2020) conducted in September.
Justice Jayant Nath issued notice to the NTA seeking its stand on the plea by 14 candidates who have also challenged the procedure laid down by the testing agency for challenging the answer key and the OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheets.
The court had on December 11 allowed the petitioners to examine their OMR sheets and take their photographs. On Monday, Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan and advocates Tanvi Dubey and Avishkar Singhvi, appearing for the candidates, told the court that the inspection revealed that some OMR sheets were blank and in one case a torn end of the sheet was stuck together with tape. They claimed there were other discrepancies in the OMR sheets they had examined and suggested setting up a high powered committee to look into the matter.