IIT candidates file petition in SC, seeking additional effort in JEE Advanced

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by those candidates who appeared in JEE Advanced 2020 and 2021 but either did not qualify or qualified with a lower rank. According to the petition, the students have challenged it JEE Advanced The notice dated December 30, 2021, which makes them ineligible to get an additional chance for IIT admissions, reported Live Law.

The candidates have demanded that they should be allowed to appear for JEE Advanced 2022. According to the notice issued by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on December 30 last year, it grants. Another chance for students to appear in JEE Advanced only in three cases.

As per the notice of JAB, it allows those students of 2020 batch who did not register for JEE Main To appear for JEE Advanced 2022 in both the year 2020 and 2021. Those who had registered for JEE Main in 2020 or 2021 but did not qualify Main once or both and who had qualified JEE Main in 2020 and 2021 but did not register or appeared in JEE Advanced in those two years Those appearing are also eligible for the exam this year. Every year, top 2.5 lakh candidates of JEE Main are allowed to appear for IIT admissions.

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According to the petition filed through AOR Sachin Sharma, students who were not able to qualify JEE Advanced or who were qualified but were ineligible of lesser rank, argued that the notice issued by JAB in Vijay Lakshmi v Panjab University 2003 for SC is against the decision. 8) SCC 440 case. In which the top court had said that when the circumstances are different, the question of unequal treatment does not arise.

“Now in the present case there is no change in the circumstances under which relaxation is being given to those students who failed to qualify the Preliminary Examination – JEE (Main) and could not appear for JEE (Advanced) by default, and for those who did qualify JEE (Main) but did not register for JEE (Advanced), and for those who had not even registered for JEE (Main) in the first place but were exempted from such exemption for those petitioners. Those who have qualified JEE (Main) both the times. and appeared in JEE (Advanced) both times in 2020 and 2021 under similar circumstances,” the petition said, daily news reported.

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