New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Admissions to most engineering colleges across the country, including IITs and NITs have been put on hold on Friday by the Supreme Court over bonus marks in JEE.
The apex court gave the order based on a petition filed by two students seeking revision of the list of students who cracked IIT after getting bonus marks in the JEE conducted by IIT Madras. Further hearing on the issue will be held on July 10.
The court put on hold the admissions saying, “If granting bonus marks is a problem , it has to be solved by us at the earliest.”
The two petitioners who had also successfully cracked the exams claimed that awarding bonus marks to all has affected their merit list rank and they may thus not get admission into colleges of their preference.
The two students also said that only those who attempted the questions should have received bonus marks whereas all students have been given the extra marks.
The SC bench also directed the high courts not to accept writ petitions over counselling and admissions to the IITs from today.
The results of the JEE Advanced 2017 were declared on June 12. Of the total 2,20,000 students who had appeared for the test held on May 21, as many as 2700 aspirants were from Odisha. Around 300 Odia students had made it to the merit list.