Supreme Court nod to IIT-JEE Counselling

New Delhi, July 11: The Supreme Court bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar on Monday, They have given green signal to continue the counseling for IIT-JEE based on their results.

The court ordered that "We are inclined to vacate the order passed on July 7 and also convey that we are not inclined to interfere with the counseling and admission process and high courts should act accordingly and not interfere in the admission process"

The apex court also said it expected that errors, mistakes in the framing of questions and in the printing of question papers should not happen.

The top court had on July 7 called a halt to further counseling and admissions to IITs in respect of entrance tests under JEE-Advanced across the country.

In all, 1.56 lakh students had appeared in the IIT-JEE (Advanced), 2017 and 33,307 students have already taken admission in IITs, NITs, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and Government-Funded Technical Institutions (GFTI).

The court was informed that as of now, 10,987 students had been admitted to IITs and only 31 seats in General category were remaining.

Seven marks were given to all the candidates those who correctly attempted these two questions, those who attempted them incorrectly and even those who did not attempt them.

"To award these marks to all candidates irrespective of whether or not they had even attempted to answer these questions is arbitrary and violative," the petitioners had contended.