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NEET PG Exam 2024: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain pleas seeking the postponement of the NEET PG examination. The matter was heard by a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. The bench said that it can't put the careers of two lakh students in jeopardy for five students.

"How can we postpone such an exam. Mr Sanjay Hegde, nowadays people just come asking to postpone the exam. It's not a perfect world. We are not academic experts.

"As a matter of principle, we will not reschedule the exam. There are two lakh students and four lakh parents who will weep over the weekend if we postpone it. We cannot put the careers of so many candidates in jeopardy. We do not know who is behind these petitions," the bench said.

The exam has been scheduled for August 11.

According to news agency PTI, senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that rescheduling the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET-PG) is needed because there is one exam in the morning and one in the afternoon. The plea said that many candidates have been allocated cities that are highly inconvenient for them to reach. It also said that the cities were allotted on July 31, and the specific centres will be declared on August 8.

The exam was initially to be held on June 23. It was postponed by the Union Health Ministry as a "precautionary measure" in the wake of alleged irregularities in certain other competitive exams.