Overview

• A division bench of Justices Vivek Rusia and Binod Kumar Dwivedi on July 1 suspended Justice Subodh Abhyankar’s June 23 order mandating a NEET-UG retest for petitioners affected by May 4 power failures.
• The stay prevents any fresh exam or rank determination for students who filed writ petitions before the provisional answer key’s June 3 release.
• The single-judge order had found that unequal lighting and lack of mandatory CCTV footage violated the right to equality under Article 14.
• The National Testing Agency appealed, arguing that backup power arrangements limited any disadvantage and that a new exam could introduce differing difficulty levels.
• The court will reconvene on July 10 to decide the appeal, with NEET counselling for affected candidates provisionally suspended until then.