Gurpal Singh Ahluwalia, J.

1. This writ petition under Article 226 of Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner seeking following reliefs :-

          "(i) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, more particularly in the nature of Mandamus, directing the respondent authorities to produce and verify the petitioner's original OMR Answer Sheet, along with the original evaluation record, and examine the discrepancies appearing in the OMR Response Sheets downloaded by the petitioner from the official portal on 13.07.2026 and 20.07.2026;

          (ii) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondent authorities to re-compute/re-evaluate the petitioner's marks strictly on the basis of the original OMR Answer Sheet and the original examination record, after rectifying the erroneous question mapping and evaluation, in accordance with law;

          (iii) Issue an appropriate writ, order or direction directing the respondent authorities to declare a revised result of the petitioner by awarding the marks found due upon such verification and re-computation, and to extend all consequential benefits, including consideration for admission to MBBS/BDS and other undergraduate medical courses, if found entitled;

          (iv) Pending final adjudication of the present writ petition, direct the respondent authorities to preserve and produce the petitioner's original OMR Answer Sheet, digital response data, server logs, audit trail, evaluation records and all connected documents relating to the petitioner's NEET (UG)-2026 examination, so as to ensure that the subject matter of the present petition is not rendered infructuous;

          (v) Pass such other or further writ, order or direction as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit, just and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case, including the award of costs of the present petition in favour of the petitioner."

2. It is the case of the petitioner that two different OMR sheets of the petitioner were uploaded by respondents and both the OMR sheets were contrary to each other and do not reflect the correct OMR sheet of the petitioner.

3. Respondents have uploaded the OMR sheet of the petitioner in the reference column of ERP Portal by claiming that the OMR sheets which have been relied upon by the petitioner as Annexures P/3 & P/4 were never uploaded by the department, but the correct OMR sheet has been uploaded in the reference column of ERP Portal 4 . In order to resolve the controversy, this Court vide order dated 13/08/2026 had directed the respondents to produce original OMR sheet of the petitioner. The original OMR sheet of the petitioner was produced in a sealed cover envelop by Mr. Manish Shrivastava - Assistant Director, National Testing Agency, New Delhi, which was opened in the Court in the presence of Shri D.P.Singh - Advocate for the petitioner & Shri Praveen Kumar Newaskar Deputy Solicitor General for the respondents / Union of India. It was informed by Shri D.P.Singh - Advocate for the petitioner that petitioner is also present in the Court. Accordingly, the original OMR sheet of the petitioner produced by the respondents was shown to the petitioner, who accepted his signature on the OMR sheet.

5. Although, petitioner tried to refute by submitting that the answers which are visible on the original OMR sheet were not filled by him, but in absence of any mark of erasing on the OMR sheet, it is not possible for this Court to accept the contention of the petitioner especially when the Model Answer Key was already uploaded by the respondents in the reference column of ERP Portal.

6. Since the original OMR sheet, which has been produced by the respondents contains signature of the petitioner, therefore, the original OMR sheet produced today and has been uploaded by the respondents in the reference column of ERP Portal of High Court of Madhya Pradesh is treated as authentic OMR sheet. However, it is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that on the basis of the marks obtained by the petitioner, he will not cross the cut off marks for qualifying the medical course.

7. Since, the controversy with regard to the authenticity of the OMR sheet has been resolved by showing the original OMR sheet to the petitioner, accordingly, nothing survives in this petition to be decided any more.

8. Consequently, this writ petition is hereby dismissed. 9 . The original OMR sheet is returned back to Shri Praveen Kumar Newaskar - Deputy Solicitor General for the respondents / Union of India in the presence of Shri D.P.Singh - Advocate for the petitioner and Shri Manish Shrivastava - Assistant Director, National Testing Agency, New Delhi.