NEET aspirant submitted forged documents, NTA free to take legal action: HC on student who alleged OMR was torn

Allahabad High Court dismisses NEET aspirant's petition, finds forged documents; NTA can take legal action, original OMR intact.

The Allahabad High Court on June 18 said that a NEET aspirant who had alleged in her petition that the NTA failed to declare her result and that her OMR answer sheet was found torn had submitted forged documents and the NTA can take legal action in the matter.

This came after the National Testing Agency, on the direction of the high court's Lucknow Bench, produced before it the original OMR answer sheet of the student which was found to be intact.

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The student, Ayushi Patel, in her petition, claimed that NTA sent her a communication saying her result would not be declared as her OMR sheet was found torn. She had also posted a video on social media repeating the allegations that caused a stir amid the ongoing row over claims of irregularities in the conduct of the undergraduate medical entrance exam NEET.

The petitioner had demanded that her OMR sheet be evaluated manually. She had also called for an inquiry against NTA and demanded that the counselling for admission be stopped.

A Vacation Bench of Justice Rajesh Singh had on June 12 asked the NTA to produce the original records of the student.

In compliance with the order, NTA's Deputy Director Sandeep Sharma presented the original documents of the student along with an affidavit.