Disha Panchal vs Union Of India The Secretary on 13 June, 2018
26. He submits that the decision in Disha Panchal (supra) is not
applicable to the situation in hand, inasmuch as in the said case
compensatory marks were granted due to power cut during the Computer
Based Test (CBT), which principle cannot be made applicable to the present
case as NEET (UG) is an OMR based examination conducted in pen and
paper. He submits that unlike CBT, time consumption by a candidate in
attempting one question cannot be accurately assessed in pen-paper based
examination due to absence of audit logs. That apart, in the said decision, a
Grievance Redressal Committee, appointed by the Court, had come to a
conclusion that there were multiple disruptions due to power shortage which
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actually caused loss of time to 4690 candidates as the computers shut down
due to lack of power back-up, which is not the situation in the present case.