Friday, May 21, 2010

HC refuses to stay declaration of results of IIT-JEE

The Delhi High Court today refused to stay declaration of results of prestigious IIT Joint Entrance Examination for 2010-11 on the allegations that there were errors in instructions in question papers and a faulty marking system was adopted by the organising committee for the tests.

The High Court also declined to give a direction to IIT for holding the examination afresh.

"We are dismissing the applications (for staying the declaration of results and conducting afresh the entrance tests)," a Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta said on two separate PILs filed in this regard.

The results were scheduled to be declared on May 26.

However, the court kept the petitions filed on the issue pending by directing the IIT's organising committee for JEE to demonstrate before it on June 2 the software adopted for evaluation of answer sheets.