NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to study a plea towards bringing down from three to two, the makes an attempt given to Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced aspirants. When the plea got here up earlier than a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih, the petitioner’s counsel stated, “This matter pertains to the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) admission entrance examination in which the number of attempts have been reduced from three to two.”
The lawyer stated an analogous plea was listed earlier than the bench on January 10 following which the court docket directed each to be tagged.
The contemporary plea, filed by advocate Sanjeet Kumar Trivedi, stated it associated to the method for admissions into the celebrated IITs however the joint admission board (JAB), entrusted to conduct the JEE Advanced examination, modified the eligibility standards for college students in an “arbitrary” method.
“The JAB, vide its press release dated November 5, 2024, first fixed the permissible number of attempts for JEE-Advanced at three, only to change it abruptly vide another press release dated November 18, 2024, and thereby reducing the number of attempts. to two,” the plea stated.
“The abrupt changes in the eligibility criteria,” it stated, “has affected the petitioner as well as thousands of similarly situated persons denying them a valuable opportunity to enter the IITs.”
The plea stated the change in eligibility standards was towards the ideas of pure justice and added, “The impugned notification is also in violation of principles of legitimate expectation and promissory estoppel.”
Seeking setting apart the November 18, 2024 press launch, it stated the change disentitled and disqualified many college students from taking the JEE-Advanced 2025 examination.
