Mumbai. The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court refused to grant relief to a man who was not allowed to appear for the NEET exam because he did not have the necessary documents. The court said that many candidates resort to malpractices in medical examinations and this reminds of the movie ‘Munnabhai MBBS’.
A division bench of Justices R V Ghuge and Y G Khobragade, in its October 31 verdict, dismissed the plea filed by 49-year-old doctor Shyamsundar Patil, seeking direction to the National Board of Examinations to conduct super specialty 2023 examination for him. Conduct the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for the examination.
Patil was not allowed to enter the examination center in Hyderabad in September because he did not have a physical copy of the permanent registration certificate issued by the Medical Council. Patil claimed that he had a copy of it on his phone but since mobile phones were banned in the examination centre, he was not allowed to enter. However, the bench said that the authorities cannot be blamed.
The court said that as a result of technological progress and development, there are instances when students have resorted to malpractices in examinations through various means such as forging admit cards, forging identity cards, hacking websites and carrying air-pods or electronic earbuds in the examination hall. Have resorted to strategy.
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The court said, ‘We remember the film ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ and it would not be an exaggeration to say that there are many candidates who resort to such methods. There are instances when NEET-undergraduate and postgraduate exam results are hacked by hackers, results are fabricated and exam results are published on fake websites with higher marks.’
She said that the examination authorities constantly inform the candidates as to what documents they should carry with them to the examination hall and what are the electronic devices that they should not carry with them. The court said that the objective behind this arrangement is to ensure that the examination is conducted in a fair manner and no candidate is replaced by someone else in the examination or a candidate resorting to unfair means does not appear in the examination.
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The bench said that the petitioner had not carried a copy of his registration certificate and had relied on showing it on his mobile phone at the examination center and hence the authorities cannot be held responsible for negligence. The court said, ‘If the petitioner had possessed the medical registration certificate, there would have been no restriction on him from entering the examination hall.
The petitioner should blame himself for failing to strictly follow the standing instructions for the students. The bench said that it would not be appropriate to direct the authorities to conduct fresh examinations only for the petitioner.
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Tags: Court Comment, Maharashtra News, REET exam
FIRST PUBLISHED : November 18, 2023, 12:02 PM IST
