The National Testing Agency (NTA) has told the Supreme Court that it was forced to cancel NEET-UG 2026 after receiving inputs of alleged malpractice just days after the examination – even though it had taken steps including deploying Aadhaar-based biometric authentication, AI-assisted CCTV surveillance, mobile jammers at every examination centre and a five-tier monitoring system across the country. In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court ahead of Friday’s hearing on pleas seeking the restructuring or replacement of the NTA, the agency has sought to demonstrate that it implemented sweeping reforms following the NEET controversy of 2024, and that the examination held on May 3 this year was conducted under what it describes as the most stringent security architecture in the history of the test.…