Supreme Court today restrained further counselling or admissions to seats in IIT JEE (Advanced)-2017 till further orders.<br/><br/>The apex court also said that no High Court should entertain any petition from today concerning the IIT JEE (advanced) counselling. A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and AM Khanwilkar issued the order in a petition filed by one Aishwarya Agarwal. <br/><br/>The petitioner has cited errors in one set of question papers in her challenge to the admission process.<br/><br/>The matter will now be heard on July 10.<br/>The students were awarded grace marks as the answer key to seven of the questions went missing. A petition filed before the court had objected to the awarding of grace marks to all candidates, irrespective of whether they attempted these questions. <br/><br/>The stay applies to all institutes that used the IIT-JEE (Advanced) 2017 for admissions. The top court has now said that will come up with a new method to grant the marks. <br/><br/>The students were awarded grace marks as the answer key to seven of the questions went missing. A petition filed before the court had objected to the awarding of grace marks to all candidates, irrespective of whether they attempted these questions. <br/><br/>The stay applies to all institutes that used the IIT-JEE (Advanced) 2017 for admissions. The top court has now said that will come up with a new method to grant the marks.
News On AIR | July 7, 2017 6:03 PM
JEE Advanced 2017: SC stays counselling, admission to IITs