The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the ranking and selection process adopted for the prestigious IIT-JEE entrance exams.

The Apex court said that there was no arbitrariness or ulterior motives in fixing the methodology.

A bench of justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik said courts would interfere with the procedure only if there was proven malafide, caprice or arbitrariness, which was lacking in the present system adopted by the Joint Admission Board, the nodal agency for conducting the exams across the country.

The apex court passed the judgement while dismissing the appeal filed by an IIT aspirant who had appeared in IIT-JEE 2006 as a general category candidate.