NEET: SC quashes plea, states to go ahead with medical exams

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The bench pointed out that the second phase of NEET is scheduled on July 24 and there seemed no urgency to hear the matter during the summer break. “Let the matter come up for hearing after the (summer) vacation,” it said while refusing a plea for urgent hearing of the petition filed by an Indore-based doctor.

The court prima facie did not agree with the submission of senior advocate Vivek Tankha, appearing for petitioner Anand Rai, that the government was not competent to nullify the judicial order by promulgating the ordinance.

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Appearing for the Centre, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said the ordinance, which keeps state boards outside the purview of NEET, is only for this academic year and the government was well within its right to come up with it. He also objected to the plea for urgent hearing, saying it is not an “earth shattering” matter.

Rai had filed the plea seeking quashing of the ordinance, which got Presidential assent on May 24. The plea had also sought a stay on the operation of the ordinance as an interim relief.

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