Don’t link Kota suicides: Supreme Court refuses to stay NEET counselling

The Supreme Court on Friday said the suicides in Kota were not due to NEET-UG 2024 results, and that the petitioners should not make such emotional arguments.

The court's remark came while the vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta took objection to a submission made by one of the counsels for petitioners, saying that students at coaching centers in Kota were dying by suicide. Justice Nath said to the counsel, "Don't make unnecessary emotional arguments here."

The bench reiterated that it will not stay the NEET counseling. the bench issued a notice on the pleas seeking a CBI probe. While the National Testing Agency (NTA) was directed to file a response within two weeks, other respondents (Centre) were given time until July 8, the next date of hearing.

The counsel pressed that petitioners were seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged paper leak, to which Justice Nath observed that the NTA's response on the same was necessary before any order was passed. The court today heard seven writ petitions in the NEET case.