In the latest development, the Delhi High Court has disposed of a NEET UG candidate’s plea seeking directions to the NTA to produce and preserve his original physical OMR sheet, after the testing agency presented the original sheet before the HC. Following this, the court took the sheet on record, as the relief sought in the petition had been granted.
A tweet shared by advocate and social activist Vineet Jindal, through whom the 21-year-old filed the plea in the HC, read, “NTA produced photocopies of the student’s OMR Answer Sheet, Attendance Sheet and Calculation Sheet before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court.”
The advocate added that, upon examination, they found that these documents contained entries and content that were not present in the copies earlier supplied to the candidate, raising serious questions about the authenticity and consistency of the records.
“The Hon’ble Delhi High Court has granted us liberty to initiate appropriate fresh legal proceedings to challenge these documents. We will pursue all legal remedies to ensure transparency and justice,” the tweet added.
The issue arose when a Re-NEET 2026 candidate alleged that his score was altered ‘thrice’ within 24 hours. The allegation, made through advocate and social activist Vineet Jindal, later reached the High Court.
Score Dropped from 650 to 500 to 135, Claims Re-NEET Aspirant
As per the petition accessed by Times Now, when the result was declared on July 16, 2026, the petitioner encountered ‘unprecedented and unexplained’ fluctuations in his score while accessing the official NTA portal. Initially, the portal displayed 650 marks. Immediately thereafter, after being automatically logged out by the system, the petitioner attempted to log in several times and, upon successfully logging in, found that his score had changed to 500 marks.
The following day, i.e. July 17, 2026, the petitioner again checked his result and found that his score had drastically reduced to 135 marks.
Aggrieved by these unexplained changes, the petitioner immediately sent repeated representations through emails to the NTA, besides submitting an application under the Right to Information Act seeking disclosure of original records relating to his OMR sheet and evaluation.
“Receiving no satisfactory response, the petitioner personally visited the office of the National Testing Agency in New Delhi on July 20, 2026. During verification, the officials displayed an OMR sheet on a computer screen, claiming it to be the petitioner’s OMR sheet. He immediately informed the officials that the OMR sheet shown to him was not his original OMR sheet,” the plea states.
Instead of investigating the grievance, officials allegedly informed the petitioner that the displayed OMR sheet was the only one available in their records and that, even if he approached the Court, the same OMR sheet would be produced.
Soon after, the student approached the Delhi High Court through Adv. Vineet Jindal, seeking directions to the authorities to produce the original OMR answer sheet, the complete result-processing records, and all documents relating to the evaluation and publication of his result to ensure transparency and fairness in the examination process.
This is one of several cases that have landed in the High Court. Petitions filed by others allege discrepancies in the totalling of marks and OMR mismatches. While the NTA assured close monitoring and scrutiny of all complaints, it warned complainants against submitting fake and AI-generated OMRs.