Supreme Court to hear NEET PG 2025 transparency plea Today

Petitioners, including doctor groups such as the United Doctors Front and aspirants like Dr Lakshya Mittal, argue that this rollback from NBEMS’s August 21 announcement renders the disclosure “opaque, unintelligible and incapable of meaningful verification”.

During an earlier hearing on September 4, the court questioned the petitioners, asking, “Why do you think there is no transparency? Is it because you got less marks?” while observing that Article 32 petitions can sometimes be misused rather than driving systemic improvements. The matter has now been assigned to a bench comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice K V Viswanathan for final adjudication.

Petitioners contend that NEET PG deploys a shuffled master question paper, varying the sequence of questions and options for each candidate. By providing only question ID numbers, aspirants cannot map individual responses to specific questions, defeating the purpose of answer key publication and violating their right to equality and fair procedure under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution. They demand disclosure of:

• The exact questions in the order attempted,
  
  

• Candidate responses,
  
  

• The official correct answers, and
  
  

• Marks awarded per question.
  
  

This hearing comes amid preparations by the Medical Counselling Committee to release the schedule for 50 percent All India Quota seats for MD, MS, and postgraduate diploma programmes for the 2025–26 academic session. More than 2.42 lakh candidates appeared for NEET PG 2025 on August 3 across 301 cities and 1,052 centres nationwide.

With 11 petitions consolidated before the apex court, today’s verdict will determine whether candidates will gain full access to the question paper and a truly transparent answer key process for one of India’s most competitive medical entrance examinations.