Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the review petition filed by ministers of six opposition-ruled states who were seeking a review of the court’s August 17 order to conduct NEET-UG and JEE (Mains) examinations.
The ministers in the plea had claimed that the top court order failed to secure students’ “right to life” and ignored “teething logistical difficulties” to be faced in conducting the exams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state ministers on August 28 moved SC and demanded that the examinations be postponed by at least six to eight weeks keeping in mind the surge in coronavirus cases and health concerns of students.It alleged that the government’s decision to go ahead with examinations despite the 3.3 million COVID cases with over 60,000 deaths, “reveals non-application of mind, and is an unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious exercise of power”.
The review plea has been filed by ministers from West Bengal (Moloy Ghatak), Jharkhand (Rameshwar Oraon), Rajasthan (Raghu Sharma), Chhattisgarh (Amarjeet Bhagat), Punjab (B S Sidhu), and Maharashtra (Uday Ravindra Sawant).
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, B R Gavai, and Krishna Murari considered the review plea in chambers.
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