The Supreme Court has mandated a manual evaluation of a NEET-UG 2025 answer sheet due to a candidate's claim of incorrect stapling, leading to a jumbled question sequence. This directive follows growing criticism of the NTA's handling of student grievances regarding faulty booklets and scoring discrepancies. The court rejected the NTA's argument that the stapling error caused no harm.
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