The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a fresh plea filed by some examinees challenging the government's decision to cancel the U⛄GC-NET examination following alleged question paper leak, saying that entertaining it at this stage will create "chaos".
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justiceꦯs JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the government is conducting the exam afreshꦛ on August 21 and the students, who are around nine lakh, must have some kind of "certainty now".
"The Supreme Court stepping now will have a serious effect and the𒆙re will be chaos all over," the CJI said while declining to entertain the plea filed by Prౠaveen Dabas and others.
The bench said the exam was held on Jun𒉰e 18 and was cancelled a day after that.
"Entertaining the plea at the present stage would only add to uncertainty and add to utter chaos," the CJI said, adding the Cen🃏tral government must be "doubly cautious after the NEET-UG fiasco and thus it was cancelled. Let this process go on now".
Earlier, the top court had dis💛missed a PIL on the issue, sayi🍸ng it was filed by a lawyer and not by aggrieved candidates.
"Why are you (lawyer) coming? Let the students come here themselves," the CJI had told the lawyer, adding "while declining the abo🍃ve PIL, we express nothing on merits".
The bench had asked advocate Ujjawal Gaur, who has filed the PIL as a petitioner, to focus on som𝓡e legal matters and leave such issues for aggrieved persons.
The earlier plea was also filed against the decision of the Union education ministry and th🥀e National Testing Agency to cancel the UGC-NET exam following inputs that its integrity may have been compromised.
The ministry on June 19 had ordered the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam and handed over the matter to the CBI for an investigation.
