Overview

• The Supreme Court has accepted a petition from NEET-UG 2025 candidates who claimed power outages at more than a dozen Indore and Ujjain centres hindered their performance.
• Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the National Testing Agency and set the hearing for next week.
• The plea challenges a Madhya Pradesh High Court division bench’s decision overturning a single-judge order that had directed a retest for affected students.
• Petitioners relied on media reports, video evidence and an Indore district collector’s statement documenting hour-long outages and delayed emergency lighting.
• The hearing is slated just days before the first round of NEET counselling begins on July 21, putting the admissions timeline in flux.