NEET-UG 2025 | Supreme Court Dismisses Candidate's Plea Alleging OMR Sheet Tampering
The Supreme Court today(September 4) dismissed a plea alleging OMR tampering in the NEET(UG) 2025. Before a bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar, Advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara submitted that a NEET(UG) aspirant had approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court in a writ petition against the National Testing Agency, claiming that the OMR answer sheet given to her after...
The Supreme Court today(September 4) dismissed a plea alleging OMR tampering in the NEET(UG) 2025.
Before a bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar, Advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara submitted that a NEET(UG) aspirant had approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court in a writ petition against the National Testing Agency, claiming that the OMR answer sheet given to her after the examination was not the one she had submitted as she had answered 171 questions correctly out of 180, whereas the OMR sheet showed she answered only 11 questions. She also claimed that the signature and the thumb impression on the disputed OMR sheet did not belong to her.
Against this, the NTA submitted that she answered 11 questions, out of which only two were correct. It was also pointed out that the OMR sheets were sealed in a pink envelope in the presence of students in the exam room itself and procuring signatures of two students as witnesses for due observance, a process the candidate did not dispute. Considering this, and also the fact that the High Court found general inconsistencies in the candidate's signature, the Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed her plea against which she approached the Supreme Court.
Nedumpara had requested that the candidate be allowed to make a representation before the NTA, but the Court said that it's not something it can do.
Case Details: DUDEKULA SHAMEERA Vs THE UNION OF INDIA|SLP(C) No. 23025/2025 Diary No. 44714 / 2025