New Delhi, July 14 (TIWN) The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking directions to the Centre, the National Testing Agency (NTA), and others to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) exam scheduled to be held on July 17.

The high court, which held there was no merit in the petition, said as the petitioners were students so it was not going harsh on them.  "Had it been somebody else, the court would have dismissed the petition with heavy costs, " Justice Sanjeev Narula said. 

The high court added that if such matters are filed in the future, it will not shy away from imposing costs.  It questioned the petitioners' counsel for approaching the court at the last moment as the exam for the undergraduate medical and dental courses were scheduled on July 17. 

The petitioners had sought to set aside the date fixed for the entrance test and re-schedule it after four to six weeks on several grounds, including that the schedule of the national level examinations, that is, NEET, JEE, and Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET), is “unorganised” and the same has “caused immense mental trauma and harassment resulting in 16 reported suicides of young students leaving their families in a state of despair”.