JEE Main: Delhi HC refuses to direct detection, removal of alleged duplicity of candidates

Justice Sanjeev Narula said weeding out duplications would create gaps and the entire list would thus have to be redrawn.

The Delhi High Court has refused to direct the detection and removal of alleged duplicity of candidates in the rank list for JEE Main.

The court passed this order on the application of a JEE candidate seeking interim relief and claimed that the common rank list by the National Testing Agency (NTA) was erroneous as it contained duplicity of candidates. She also added that if the list is corrected, she would become eligible for the JEE Advanced.

Justice Sanjeev Narula said weeding out duplications would create gaps and the entire list would thus have to be redrawn which would upset the whole selection process, as reported by NDTV.

"Weeding out duplications would create gaps in the rank list and the entire list would thus have to be redrawn, which, in the opinion of the court, would have a ripple effect of upsetting the whole exam conducting mechanism and selection process, and thus cannot be allowed. Further, the court would then have no reason to restrict the benefit to only the Petitioner," said the court.

"Significantly, the duplication detection and removal exercise would mean that the entire list of selected candidates would have to be disturbed. The fallout of allowing the prayer would necessarily mean that the court would have to tinker with the cut-off score, that too on a mere assumption that there would be more duplications than what is confirmed by NTA," the court added.

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The petitioner submitted 13 scorecards where purportedly duplication occurred and she said that there are thousands of such instances, however, NTA denied the claim and said that there were only 10 cases of duplications.

The court noted that the online system was not able to prevent multiple registrations per candidate for the two sessions of JEE Mains. As a result, certain candidates apparently got registered for the second session under a fresh application number which lead to candidates clearing the cut-off in both the sessions being reflected twice in the rank list.

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