UG Retest: NTA Warns Legal Action Over Fake AI-Generated OMR Sheets
As NEET-UG retest candidates allege score discrepancies, the NTA says most submitted proof is fake or AI-generated, warning of legal action while aggrieved families threaten to move court.
NTA says most discrepancy claims in NEET-UG retest scores rely on fake or AI-generated OMR sheets
Even as several candidates among the 11.2 lakh who appeared for the NEET-UG retest took to social media alleging discrepancies between their expected and final marks declared on Thursday, July 16, the National Testing Agency has said that most of the “proof” being circulated online is fake or Artificial Intelligence-generated Optical Mark Reader sheets.
The agency has repeatedly warned that it will pursue legal action against candidates found submitting doctored documents, even as a handful of aggrieved students and parents have said they plan to move court over the issue.
This is not the first time such a dispute over NEET marks has reached a courtroom. In a high-profile case following the NEET 2024 examination, candidate Ayushi Patel had approached the Allahabad High Court after her result was declared, claiming a mismatch in her scores and seeking directions against the agency. The court eventually dismissed her plea, holding that she had forged the documents she submitted in support of her claim, an outcome the NTA has since repeatedly cited while responding to fresh allegations this year.
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Among those who went public over the past two days is Arya Singh, a NEET aspirant from Kanpur and the daughter of an ex-serviceman. In a video she released online, she claimed her score had first appeared as 540 marks on the NTA portal on Thursday night. “I opened the portal thrice at night and the score of 540 stood. When we opened it later, it came as 167 marks. We have mailed the NTA and the Education Minister. We want justice,” she said. Her family has indicated that they will approach the court if the agency does not resolve the discrepancy.
The NTA, in statements issued on two consecutive days, said, “In the wake of many OMR sheets submitted for scrutiny turning out to be fake/AI generated, students and parents are advised to submit only original OMRs for scrutiny. Any fake / AI generated OMR may invite legal action against the complainant.” The agency added that every complaint received was being closely monitored and scrutinised before any action was taken.
To illustrate its concerns, NTA sources referred to a video that went viral on Sunday, in which the father of a candidate, Avnish Shrivastava, alleged that the OMR sheet uploaded for his son actually belonged to someone named Ajit Singh. The clip was later shared by the official Congress handle on X, which alleged, “Scam in the Re-NEET after the NEET paper leak!”The NTA, however, clarified that no candidate named Ajit Singh, described as the son of Lakhan Singh and Reena Singh, had even registered for NEET UG 2026. “The spelling mistakes in the instructions at the top of the sheet, the wrong serial number, the field labels — many are not correct in the OMR sheet circulated on social media,” the sources said.
Other parents have raised similar concerns. On Saturday, a parent from Gujarat posted an OMR sheet on X, writing, “My son’s OMR. From this, he got 472 marks and after getting results, it shows 452. How did this happen? Please explain @NTA_Exams.” Another parent, Dr Rajesh Kumar Singh, wrote to the agency, “My son’s NEET OMR sheet shows that he has scored 660, but when the result came yesterday, it was 116. How come? I have all the proof, please help me.”
With the NTA maintaining that the bulk of the discrepancies stem from fabricated evidence, and aggrieved families threatening litigation, the ongoing dispute over the NEET-UG retest scores appears headed for further scrutiny, both online and potentially before several courts in the coming days.
