GS POLITY – JUDICIARY | Sep 2020 HELPFUL FOR UPSC 2020

 POLITY – JUDICIARY  

SC rejects appeal by 6 State Ministers against JEE, NEET: Bench finds no merit in plea to review August 17 order

    A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Ashok Bhushan, dismissed a plea filed jointly by Ministers from six non-BJP-ruled States against the conduct of the JEE Main and the NEET-UG amid the pandemic.

    The Bench, also comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Krishna Murari, found no merit in the plea to review the top court’s order on August 17 refusing to entertain a petition by students to postpone the NEET and the JEE.

    ‘Careful study’: “We have carefully gone through the review petitions and the connected papers. We find no merit in the review petitions and the same are accordingly dismissed,” the court said in a short order. The court similarly dismissed the review petitions filed by Puducherry MLA R.K.R. Anantharaman and N. Vinoba Bhoopathy.

    The Ministers had submitted that lakhs of students should not fall prey to the Centre’s “knee-jerk” and “haphazard” plans, which will prove “worse than the disease itself”. The situation was grave enough to recall or postpone the exams, they said.

    The National Testing Agency (NTA) had notified the JEE between September 1 to 9. The NEET for medical seats are scheduled for September 13. The JEE Main is slated to be conducted at over 660 exam centres, with 9.53 lakh students taking it. The NEET will see 15.97 lakh students in 3,843 centres across the country.

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