Live Updates of Supreme Court Hearing on NEET PG 2023 Postponement: Hearing cocncludes, know what happened

Sakunth KumarUpdated On: February 24, 2023 04:27 pm IST

The Supreme Court of India has taken up a plea seeking NEET PG 2023 postponement. Honourable Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Honourable Justice Dipankar Datta heard the matter.

SC Hearing on NEET PG 2023 Postponement: The Supreme Court of India heard a plea seeking NEET PG 2023 postponement, and the matter was listed for an urgent hearing under ‘supplementary cause list’. Top advocates are on board to defend the petitioners. The matter has been heard by Honourable Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Honourable Justice Dipankar Datta. The plea is seeking to postpone NEET PG 2023 exam by at least 3-4 months so that gap between the exam date and counselling will be reduced. The detailed highlights of the hearing can be checked through the live blog here.

What happened in SC's First Hearing on NEET PG 2023 Postponement?

Here are the highlights of SC's first hearing on NEET PG 2023 postponement -

The bench took up the matter for hearing in the afternoon session
The counsel of the petitioners presented all the facts and informed that 45,000+ students have signed the online petition seeking postponement
The counsel of petitioners even informed the court that the doctors are working 24/7 and they could not prepare for the exam due to the unrealistic exam times of NBE
The counsel of the petitioners informed the court that the decision to extend the internship till August 31 was taken 25 days before the exam
The major argument happened regarding the internship date
The Judges argued that if a decision is taken for the benefit of 45,000 aspirants, it might impact other students who have been preparing for the exam
NBE responded that it could not postpone the exam as all the arrangements have been done, and it could lead to chaos
NBE further argued that the last two years, the academic session was disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic, and their intention was to keep academic session on track this year
The Judge asked NBE to come up with some statistical data from previous years and figure out a solution for the ongoing issue
Finally, the Bench posted the matter for hearing on Monday, i.e., February 24
The Bench neither passed an order for postponement nor passed any other order on this matter. The matter is likely to be closed on Monday

Disclaimer: To avoid any sort of misinterpretation, we will be providing the information of hearing with the source. We will update the exact information only after the official information is available along with legal interpretation so that there would not be any sort of misinterpretations, unlike the Telangana HC hearing day. We assure no confusion today.

Our Source of Information: Direct Live Streaming. We are officially listening to all proceedings of Court Hall Number 14

Case Details of SC Hearing on NEET PG 2023 Postponement

Here are the case details pertaining to SC Hearing on NEET PG 2023 postponement –

Case Number 1	247/2023
Case Number 2	250/2023
Type of Petition	Writ Petition
Bench Assemble Time	10:30 AM
Lunch Break	1:20 PM
Bench Re-assemble after Lunch	2:00 PM
Time of Hearing	3:26 PM
Serial Number	53 and 53.1
Display Board Link	Click Here
Status of Case	Pending
Bench	Honourable Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Honourable Justice Dipankar Datta
IA Prayer	Seeking Interim Relief on NEET PG 2023 Postponement
Court Hall Number	14
Respondents	Union of India NBE MCC NMC
Is live streaming available?	Yes
Outcome of Hearing	Matter has been posted to Monday

Here is the screenshot of the cause list -

During the Telangana HC hearing on NEET PG 2023 postponement, the court disposed of the plea stating that it could not intervene in the postponement matter. However, the court suggested the NMC consider the fresh representations on postponement but NMC did not respond despite the representations being submitted. For NEET PG 2023 aspirants, SC is the final hope and they are expecting a positive outcome today.