Relief for students: Stay on IIT admissions lifted by Supreme Court
The A-G said 1.56 lakh students took the exam and 33,000 students had been issued admission letters.
New Delhi: Giving relief to IIT aspirants, the Supreme Court on Monday vacated its stay and allowed the IIT to go ahead with the process of counselling and admissions to IITs and NITs across the country.
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, A.M. Kanwilkar and M.M. Shantanagouder, while vacating the stay order, took note of the submissions made by attorney- general K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the IITs, that the freeze on admissions will result in chaos as admission letters had already been issued to 33,000 students. On July 7, the apex court froze the admission process while hearing a plea complaining that there was discrimination in granting 18 bonus marks for wrong questions to all candidates who appeared in the IIT-JEE (Advanced) 2017 examination conducted by IIT-Madras.