NEET-UG paper leak row: Doctors' body calls for dissolution of NTA, files plea in Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The United Doctors Front (UDF) has approached the Supreme Court of India seeking the dissolution of the National Testing Agency (NTA) successful its existent signifier pursuing the alleged NEET-UG 2026 insubstantial leak contention and the consequent cancellation of the aesculapian entranceway examination.Filed nether Article 32 of the Constitution, the petition by the registered doctors’ assemblage alleges a “systemic and catastrophic failure” successful the behaviour of NEET-UG 2026 and calls for sweeping reforms successful India’s introspection system.The plea, filed done Advocate-on-Record Ritu Reniwal on with Advocate Mahendra Kumawat, seeks directions to the Union authorities to dismantle the NTA arsenic it presently exists nether the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and regenerate it with a statutory nationalist investigating authorization created done parliamentary legislation.

It further urges the tribunal to nonstop the Centre to enact a instrumentality establishing an autarkic investigating assemblage with intelligibly defined ineligible powers, transparency safeguards and nonstop accountability to Parliament. The petition has besides sought the constitution of a court-monitored committee to oversee the behaviour of upcoming nationalist examinations and guarantee what it termed “zero-leak integrity”.According to the plea, NEET-UG 2026, held connected May 3 for astir 22.7 lakh aspirants, was compromised by an organised “guess paper” racket allegedly circulated done WhatsApp and Telegram groups crossed respective states.

Citing investigations by the Rajasthan Special Operations Group (SOG) and the consequent CBI FIR, the petition argues that the integrity of the introspection was compromised astatine a systemic level.The petition alleges that contempt safeguards specified arsenic biometric verification, GPS tracking and AI-assisted CCTV surveillance, exam-related worldly was leaked astir 42 hours earlier the test. It contends that the eventual cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 efficaciously amounted to an admittance by authorities that genuine candidates could nary longer beryllium separated from those who benefited from the leak.The UDF has argued that the NTA’s presumption arsenic a registered nine has created an “accountability vacuum”, claiming it is not straight answerable to Parliament successful the aforesaid mode arsenic law oregon statutory bodies specified arsenic the Union Public Service Commission oregon the Staff Selection Commission.The petition further contends that recurring introspection leaks interruption Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution by undermining merit-based enactment and causing terrible intelligence distress and uncertainty among students.The plea besides cites observations made by the Supreme Court during the 2024 NEET controversy, on with recommendations of the K. Radhakrishnan Committee, which reportedly advocated stronger safeguards, reduced outsourcing and a gradual displacement towards computer-based examinations.