The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday announced the centre and city-wise results for medical entrance exam NEET-UG, which is under the scanner over alleged irregularities. The results, which were initially announced on June 5, have been published in this format following an order of the Supreme Court, which is hearing several petitions about the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the exam, including paper leak.

The exam was conducted on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities abroad, for more than 24 lakh candidates. The court had ordered that the results be announced while masking the identities of the aspirants, saying it wanted to ascertain whether candidates appearing at allegedly tainted centres secured more marks than those writing the exam elsewhere.

Candidates who appeared for the NEET UG 2024 can check their results on the official website of NTA NEET exams.nta.ac.in/NEET/ or neet.ntaonline.in. 

On July 18, the Supreme Court directed the NTA to announce the NEET UG results by July 20, at 12 noon. The court mandated that the Agency publish the students’ marks on its website without revealing their identities.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra instructed that the NEET UG results be published separately by city and centre by today noon.

The top court will resume hearing the arguments on Monday on a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the allegations of malpractice in the prestigious exam.

The bench comprising of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra ordered for the announcement of the results separately, city and centre-wise by Saturday noon. The court had also stressed that the NEET-UG re-examination can only be done on a concrete footing that sanctity has been lost on a large scale.

The 2024 NEET-UG — for entrance to undergraduate medical courses - can only be conducted again if the “sanctity” of the test held on May 5 was “lost on a large scale” as a result of leaked questions the Supreme Court said.

Controversy over the 2024 NEET-UG exam broke last month after allegations the question paper had been leaked - subsequent inquiries indicated the leak was orchestrated by a national ‘solver gang’ network - on social media that also rocked the Parliament during the Special Session convened for the taking over of the third term of NDA led Narendra Modi government. Several arrests have been made by multiple probing agencies including the CBI, EoW and States police like Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Jharkhand and West Bengal.