NEET UG 2025 Power Outage Row: Supreme Court Denies Interim Relief for Counselling Process
The Supreme Court has denied provisional permission to NEET UG 2025 candidates from Madhya Pradesh who alleged faced a power outage during the exam, ruling out their participation in the ongoing NEET UG counselling process.
NEET 2025 Latest News and Updates: The Supreme Court of India has refused to grant a provisional nod to two candidates in order to appear for the NEET UG 2025 counselling process owing to the power outage in their examination centres in Madhya Pradesh on the May 4, 2025, examination. The SC bench comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar has scheduled the NEET UG 2025 petitions filed by Navya Nayak and S. Sai Priya.
Further, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the National Testing Agency (NTA), argued before the Supreme Court that the petitioners’ demand for a NEET UG 2025 re-test could not be entertained, as it would impact lakhs of students who appeared for the exam. Considering this, the bench declined to issue interim directions and postponed the hearing.
The division bench of the High Court overturned the single judge's order in favour of the National Testing Agency (NTA), while cautioning the agency to prevent such incidents in the future. The court also considered an expert panel report, which acknowledged power outages at some NEET UG 2025 centres but stated that natural light was sufficient for candidates to complete the exam.
NEET UG Counselling 2025: Round 1 Registration Extended till July 31
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has extended the last date for round 1 NEET counselling registration 2025 till July 31, 2025. Students who have qualified the NEET UG exam 2025 can apply for registation and choice filling at mcc.nic.in.
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The NEET counselling registration fee varies for different candidate categories. For the AIQ seats and Central Universities, the fee for the General category candidates is INR 1,000 and for the SC, ST, OBC and PwD category candidates, the fee is INR 500. For participating in the NEET counselling process for Deemed Universities, the registration fee for all category candidates is INR 5,000. The registration fee is non-refundable. On the other hand, candidates will have to pay the tuition fee which is refundable. The amount for the General category candidates for the AIQ seats and Central Universities is INR 10,000. For the reserved category candidates, the amount is INR 5,000. For Deemed Universities, the tuition fee to be paid by all category candidates is INR 2,00,000. Those who would not be allotted a seat after the NEET counselling process will be refunded the tuition fee after the conclusion of the counselling rounds.
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The NEET 2025 counselling process began on July 21, 2025. The dates for four rounds have been announced by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), which is scheduled till October 25, 2025. Originally, the last date of counselling was October 3, 2025, which was postponed twice due to NRI/PWD candidate requests, and ongoing court cases.