Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that courts should ordinarily defer to the opinion of subject experts in academic matters and should not interfere with examination answer keys once they have been scrutinised and finalised through a proper expert-review process.

A division bench comprising justice Suvir Sehgal and justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa made the observation while dismissing a batch of petitions challenging the answer keys of questions in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2026.

The petitions were filed by two students from the tricity who had raised objections to certain answers after the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEET for admission to medical courses, uploade...