The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, said that any negligence, no matter how little, in administering the NEET-UG 2024 examination must be thoroughly investigated. The top court, hearing the case on the NEET-UG exam row, stressed the effort students put into studying for the tests and remarked that litigation should not be treated adversarially.

"Even if there is 0.001 per cent negligence on the part of anyone, it should be thoroughly dealt with," a vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and SVN Bhatti warned counsel representing the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA), which administers the national medical entrance exam.