Madras High Court Questions Tamil Nadu Government Over NEET Panel

Abolition of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) is a poll promise of the ruling DMK and it had recently set up a high level committee.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday posed a series of questions to the Tamil Nadu government over its setting up of a committee to look into the impact of NEET, asking if it had obtained the permission of the Supreme Court and whether the move would not violate an top court ruling. Abolition of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) is a poll promise of the ruling DMK and it had recently set up a high level committee led by retired judge of the Madras High Court, A K Rajan, to study the impact of NEET on aspirants from the socially disadvantaged sections in medical admissions. "Have you obtained the permission of the Supreme Court (which had upheld the NEET). Would it not amount to violation of the ruling of the apex court?" were among the questions raised by the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy. The bench made the observations when a PIL petition from BJP State general secretary K Nagarajan came up for hearing today before it.