IIT admissions to resume as SC vacates stay

Satya Prakash

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 10

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the green signal to admissions to prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) as it vacated its July 7 order staying the admission process.

Much to the relief to thousands of successful candidates, a Bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra accepted the contentions of IIT, Madras, which conducted the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advance this year.

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After this order, counselling for admissions to IITs would resume immediately.

While rejecting petitioner students' plea, the Bench, however, asked the Government to ensure that there was no erroneous questions asked in the examination.

The Bench kept the issue of ensuring fair examination pending and fixed October 10 for further hearing. It restrained all high courts from entertaining any petition on IIT admissions.

The Bench had on Friday stayed admissions to IITsa after a petition challenged awarding of bonus marks in JEE Advance.

Two students, who filed the petition, had sought a direction to IIT-Madras to revise the list of successful students without giving them bonus marks.

IIT-Madras conducted this year’s JEE Advance, which is the basis for admission to IITs.

“If granting bonus marks is a problem, it has to be solved by us at the earliest,” the Bench had said on Friday.

The petitioners – successful candidates in JEE – contended that their ranking in the merit list was disturbed by bonus marks given to all and they would not get admission in colleges and courses of their preference. Bonus marks should have not been given to all.

Demanding re-evaluation of answer sheets, the petitioners had said grace mark should have been given only to candidates who attempted the answers and not to those who left the questions blank.

The petitioner had alleged that the award of bonus marks deprived meritorious candidates from procuring admission in their preferred IIT as also the branches.