India, May 29 -- The Supreme Court on Friday termed the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 due to paper leak as "very traumatic", questioning the National Testing Agency's (NTA) lack of accountability mechanisms and institutional continuity, while directing the Union government to spell out measures to ensure that incidents like the 2024 and 2026 examination breaches do not recur.

A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe said that recurring failures despite last year's reforms indicated deeper institutional shortcomings within the examination system.

"It is very traumatic if this is happening. We cannot disappoint our students. It is not merely the student, it's the family too.It is so much of emotions, love, time, years of study," th...