NTA denies viral video of CUET UG answer sheets kept in open

This clarification from NTA comes after several social media posts claimed that CUET UG 2024 answer sheets were lying unattended and unsealed in the open at the NTA office.

As of now, the CUET UG 2024 result is expected to see a delay. (Representative image. Express photo by Kamleshwar Singh)

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on June 27 denied allegations of carelessly handling students’ answer sheets for the Central University Entrance Test (CUET UG) 2024.

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“These are empty boxes kept outside the hall at NTA and do not have any sensitive material inside them. Never did we keep these boxes in open, as being reported by the media. Also, we have sufficient number of security personnel deployed at the place where boxes are kept,” the agency on Thursday tweeted on ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter).

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These are empty boxes kept outside the hall at NTA and do not have any sensitive material inside them. Never did we keep these boxes in open, as being reported by the media. Also, we have sufficient number of security personnel deployed at the place where boxes are kept. pic.twitter.com/QBFukSEHG3

— National Testing Agency (@NTA_Exams) June 27, 2024

As of now, the CUET UG 2024 result is expected to see a delay. While the NTA’s information bulletin provides June 30 as the date for the declaration of CUET-UG results, a senior official at the agency said that this deadline, in the present scenario, is unlikely to be met.

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This clarification from NTA comes after several social media posts claimed that CUET UG 2024 answer sheets were lying unattended and unsealed in the open at the NTA office. However, the same has now been denied by the Agency.

The statement comes a few days after the NTA had to issue a clarification against another viral news claiming that the NTA website had been hacked. “NTA website and all its web portals are fully secure. Any information that they have been compromised and hacked is wrong and misleading,” the Agency tweeted as a clarification.

NTA website and all its web portals are fully secure. Any information that they have been compromised and hacked is wrong and misleading.

— National Testing Agency (@NTA_Exams) June 23, 2024

NTA has been at the receiving end of several accusations by students and opposition parties against the ongoing NEET UG result controversy, and other exam cancellations and postponements such as UGC NET, CSIR UGC NET, NCET etc.

Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over all the cases in the alleged paper leaks in Bihar, Gujarat, and Jharkhand. Following the investigation, CBI Thursday arrested two people from Patna. allegedly made arrangements for accommodation for NEET-UG examinees on May 4, a day before the exam, when those students had allegedly memorised the solved paper.

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