JEE Advanced 2017: Supreme Court vacates stay, allows admission and counselling to IITs

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted stay and allowed the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country to conduct further counselling and admission on the basis of the results of the IIT-JEE (Advance) 2017 results.

The top court asked IITs to give undertaking that such mistakes will not recur and no situation to award bonus marks will arise

Attorney General K K Venugopal, representing IITs told the court that such situation will not arise in future.

The court also asked High Courts not to interfere in petitions regarding counselling and admission to IITs to avoid any confusion.

Last week, while hearing the petition filed by an IIT aspirant, the court had stayed counselling and admissions to IITs. It had also restrained the High Courts across the country from entertaining any fresh petition relating to the counselling and admissions to the IITs .

The petition, filed by an IIT aspirant Aishwarya Agarwal, had sought the court's direction to declare that the action of awarding 'bonus marks' to candidates who had appeared in the JEE (Advanced)- 2017 examination was wrong and violated her right, as well as that of other students.

Since then several other students have approached the apex court seeking quashing of rank list.

KK Venugopal had said it was difficult to re-evaluate the answersheets of over two lakh students who took the examination and awarding of bonus marks across board was the most practical solution.

On June 30, the apex court had issued notice to the Ministry of Human Resource Development on a plea seeking quashing of the IIT-JEE 2017 rank list.