{"id":1022502,"date":"2026-07-21T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022502"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:31:04","slug":"nta-says-altered-neet-ug-omr-sheets-on-social-media-are-fake-asks-candidates-to-report-genuine-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/nta-says-altered-neet-ug-omr-sheets-on-social-media-are-fake-asks-candidates-to-report-genuine-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"NTA says altered NEET-UG OMR sheets on social media are fake; asks candidates to report genuine errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With a number of the qualifying candidates presenting NEET-UG OMR sheets on different social media platforms and claiming they deserved more marks than what they were awarded, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday reiterated that they were fabricated or AI-generated ones. <\/p>\n<p>Presenting such forged documents or amplifying an unfounded grievance in the public domain, constitutes a cognisable offence under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, and separately attracts liability under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Information Technology Act, 2000, the NTA said in a public notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: With a number of the qualifying candidates presenting NEET-UG OMR sheets on different social media platforms and claiming they deserved more marks than what they were awarded, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday reiterated that they were fabricated or AI-generated ones. Presenting such forged documents or amplifying an unfounded grievance in the public domain, constitutes a cognisable offence under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, and separately attracts liability under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Information Technology Act, 2000, the NTA said in a public notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022524,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022502\/revisions\/1022524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}