DIVYANSH TYAGI Vs. INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioners of both writ petitions i.e. W.P.(C)6902/2019 & W.P.(C)7081/2019 are based in Delhi and engineering aspirants and all appeared in the Joint Entrance Examination-2019 (JEE) conducted by the National Testing Agency in the months of January 2019 and April 2019.

(2.) The petitioner of W.P.(C) 6902/2019 i.e. Divyansh Tyagi secured an overall All India Rank of 4341 in the JEE. The petitioners of W.P.(C)7081/2019 i.e. Pragya Gupta, Joykirat Singh, Samarth Singhal & Kishan Sinha secured overall Ranks of 8360, 20538, 10500 and 9546 respectively. The NTA is submitted to have been entrusted with the conducting of the Joint Entrance Examination-Main in the year 2019 for the first time and is to address issues such as the assessment of the competence of candidates for admissions and recruitment comparable with research based international standards, efficiency, transparency and an error free delivery and is a premier specialist autonomous and self-sustained testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for admission/ fellowship in higher education institutions.

(3.) The petitioners submit that it is the first time that the score of the candidate was not mentioned in the result and was given in the percentile, whereas the petitioner of W.P.(C) 6902/2019 i.e. Divyansh Tyagi got a percentile of 99.6406422, the percentiles of the petitioners of W.P.(C)7081/2019 were as under:-