NEET paper leak row: SC refuses urgent hearing of plea seeking computer-based retest

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking that the NEET UG 2026 re-examination, scheduled for June 21, be conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode instead of the traditional pen-and-paper format.The plea was mentioned before a partial-working-day bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Arvind Kumar, which declined to take up the matter urgently and said it would be listed after the court vacation.Responding to the plea, Justice Narasimha said, "They (NTA) are reholding the exam. The kind of pressure they have. We will post after vacation."The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) is the country's largest medical entrance examination and is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admissions to undergraduate medical courses across India.