The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a batch of petitions concerning issues pertaining to the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduate (NEET-UG) medical admission declared earlier this month.

Appearing for the National Testing Agency (NTA), Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a single-judge bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna that there were various writ petitions being filed in different high courts on issues concerning the NEET-UG results, and that some matters had also been listed before the Supreme Court.

Mehta said that the NTA was in the process of filing a transfer petition to get all these writ petitions consolidated before the Supreme Court. “We are filing transfer petitions in the Supreme Court because there is a likelihood of conflicting views by different high courts. Can you lordship consider waiting for a week or two, we will file a transfer petition,” the Solicitor General said.

The HC was informed that the issues raised in various writ petitions could be broadly categorised into three categories — awarding of “grace/ compensatory marks, alleged paper leak and some anomalies in the answers to certain questions”. The court, thereafter, issued a notice to the NTA, which sought time for filing a reply.