SC sets aside Madras HC order granting 196 marks to candidates

The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the Madras High Court judgement granting 196 marks to each of the 24000 candidates who took NEETUG exam in Tamil language as some of the questions were wrongly translatedSetting aside the judgement by which the court gave four marks each for 49 questions the bench of Justice SA Bonbde and Justice L Nageswara Rao said the method adopted by the High Court is manifestly arbitrary and unjustified and cannot be sustainedThe court directed that from the year 201920 onwards the NEETUG Examination would be conducted by the National Testing Agency and the bilingual exam will be conducted after the question paper is translated as per the instruction mentioned in the October 22 affidavit filed by the Director NTAThe court noted that out of 1323672 lakh students who appeared for the exam approximately 105 lakh took it in English around 15 lakh chose a regional languages and of these nearly 24000 took the exam in Tamil languageThe court said the list of the candidates who appeared for NEETUG in Tamil after adding 196 marks to each one of them is startlingFor instance a student who got 260 marks has been awarded a total of 456 marks Even students who got 21 marks are entitled to 217 marks the court notedIt is clear the High Court lost sight of the primary duty in such matter that is to avoid arbitrary results the judgment pronounced by Justice Bobde saidThe High Court has made no attempt to see whether the students have in fact attempted answers to the questions which were claimed to be imperfectly translatedThe top court order came on a plea by Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE challenging the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court judgement on July 10 awarding the additional marksThe High Courts order was in response to a PIL by Communist Party of IndiaMarxist leader TK RangarajanThe top court had stayed the operation of the High Court order on July 20Catch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in the headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever