The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the demand to reconduct the NEET-UG exam, saying there wasn't sufficient evidence to indicate a systemic leak of the question paper. The court also emphasised that directing a fresh NEET-UG would have serious consequences on the 24 lakh students who appeared for the exam.

However, 4.2 lakh students who had got 4 marks even after choosing a wrong option to an atomic theory question stand to lose 5 marks (4 for the question and 1 negative mark for answering it wrongly) as the SC accepted the IIT-Delhi expert committee’s report, which termed only one option as correct.

This will entail a huge reshuffle of ranks. One of the toppers had secured 720 out of 720 despite picking the wrong option, which along with the right option was deemed correct by NTA due to an error in the previous year's NCERT physics book. Her score will now drop to 715, which will drag her rank several notches down and will be inadequate to get admission to the MBBS course in AIIMS-Delhi, her counsel said.