Court notice on plea against NEET aspirants removing thaali
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:03.11.2020
The Madras high court has ordered notice to the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEET, on a public interest writ petition to restrain it from demanding women candidates to remove jewellery including thaali and metti (toe ring).
Admitting the plea on Monday, a division bench of Justice M MSundresh and Justice D Krishnakumar directed the NTA to file its response in four weeks.
According to petitioner, advocate S Aravind Raj, who was represented by senior advocate A Thiyagarajan, such a demand was unconstitutional and arbitrary. The rules stipulated by NTA for students writing NEET are very vague, leaving students, particularly in Tamil Nadu, in great agony in the name of frisking to prevent malpractice, he said.
“Just before the stressful examination even calm and composed students are pushed to a very uncomfortable and disturbed state of mind,” the petitioner said. Married women were forced to remove thaali, metti, studs, nose stud that are sacramental ornaments for Hindu women, he said, adding that the rules are liable to be declared as unconstitutional, unreasonable and violative of the fundamental rights.
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