HC issues notices to IIMs and HRD over eligibility criteria

Updated on: Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Delhi High Court today refused to stay the admission process in IIMs but sought a response from the Centre and the premier management schools on a plea by candidates seeking declaration of the eligibility criteria for the CAT 2010 examination.
Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notices to Ministry of Human Resourses Development along with 11 Indian Institutes of Management and directed them to file their replies by April 18.

The court passed the order on a batch of petitions filed by a group of IIMs aspirants alleging the IIMs followed different criteria and as a result the students got consfused.

Seeking transparency in admission criteria of the institutes, the candidates sought a stay on the CAT 2010 examination and the entire admission process.

Appearing for the petitioners, Advocate Sumeer Sodhi and Rishabh Sancheti submitted that the views of various IIMs and the admission committee over the eligibiliry criteria were contradictory.

The admission committees of various IIMs said the eligibility criteria were known to the candidates as it had been published on its website, according to them. They claimed that through an RTI reply the prestigious IIM, Ahmedabad, has admitted that it was published on the date of declaration of the result.
They claimed there were students who have got more than 99 percentile but they were not called for the interview as the IIMs maintain different criteria which were disclosed to the aspirants only after the declaration of the CAT 2010
examination.

The lawyers argued some students had scored more than 99 percentile but were not called for the personal interviews on the ground that they had not scored good marks in secondary school exams.

The court has fixed April 18 as the next date of hearing the matter.

HC issues notices to IIMs and HRD over eligibility criteria

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