Supreme Court declines plea on online NEET

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to direct online exam or set up overseas centres for the NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) on September 13, saying interested foreign students must visit India for competing.

The court passed the directions while dealing with an appeal filed by foreign aspirants, who through their advocate Harris Beran, had pleaded that it would be impossible for them to visit India amid the pandemic as there are no proper international flights.

But the bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat declined the plea as it refused to interfere with the Kerala High Court order which had refused to direct the NTA to conduct online exams or set up centres abroad for interested overseas students.