NEET 2025: Court Dismisses PwBD Candidate’s Plea Alleging Score Manipulation.


07-August-2025 Civil Writ Petition >> Civil & Consumer Law   |   Education >> Miscellaneous  

Ms. Tamanna Sonalika Harishchandra Gad, a NEET (UG) 2025 applicant with a documented 57% locomotor handicap (Spastic Cerebral Palsy), filed a writ case with the court, claiming she was wrongfully excluded from consideration under the PwBD (Persons with Benchmark Disabilities) General category.

She first asserted that she qualified for consideration because her scorecard displayed a percentage of 54.7489 and 326 marks. Her scores were 126 and her percentile was 44.7489 on a later scorecard that was downloaded on July 26, 2025, which was below the 45th percentile cut-off needed for PwBD admissions.

 
 

She claimed that in order to prevent her from being admitted, her score was modified. Inquiry revealed that the latter scorecard (126 marks and 44.7489 percentile) matched the official scorecard that NTA had submitted and verified during the hearing. The legitimacy of the Petitioner's previous scorecard was damaged by its lack of download metadata and anomalies, including mismatched textual and numerical percentile statistics.

In order to provide the petitioner a chance to contest her findings, the court also examined her OMR sheet and a correspondence from NTA dated 05.06.2025. But there was no challenge. With 51 right answers and 78 wrong answers, her ultimate score of 126 was determined with accuracy.

The court dismissed the petition, stating that it was an unfortunate deficit rather than an administrative error, and found no indication of manipulation or malicious intent by the authorities. It further observed that the entire admissions procedure was transparent and was carried out through the official website.