Supreme Court Dismisses Review Petition On NEET-UG 2024 Re-examination

New Delhi: 

The Supreme Court has dismissed a review petition filed against its verdict refusing to conduct the NEET-UG 2024 exam afresh.

After perusing the review petition, a bench, headed by CJI DY Chandrachud, said that no case for review was made out and dismissed it.

“There is no error apparent on the face of the record. No case for review under Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013 has been established. The review petition is, therefore, dismissed,” ordered the Bench, also comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

The review petition filed by one of the petitioners, under Article 137 of the Constitution, challenged the decision rendered on July 23, which had said that there was no “systemic leak of question paper”, breaching the sanctity of the entire competitive exam.

Generally, review pleas are tested on very narrow grounds like mistakes of law, errors apparent on the face of the record, etc., and are often dismissed in chambers and are rarely given an open court hearing.