Overview
- Justice Jasmeet Singh allowed Harshit Agrawal’s petition and directed authorities to permit him to continue MBBS classes.
- The court recorded the CBI’s submission that a chargesheet has been filed in the NEET-UG 2024 probe and Agrawal is a witness, not an accused.
- NTA had withdrawn Agrawal’s NEET-UG 2024 scorecard based on CBI inputs, prompting Bhima Bhoi Medical College, Balangir, to cancel his admission.
- The judgment says access to higher or professional education is an affirmative obligation of the state, so any cancellation must rest on valid, genuine and compelling reasons.
- The court found the cancellation disrupted a valuable right earned through a merit-based exam and termed the grounds for removal unjustifiable.