The Delhi High Court has reserved verdict on a petition challenging the results of Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 for admissions in top management institutes.Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju reserved judgment in the plea moved by a candidate, Aditya Kumar Mallick, who is aggrieved with an incorrect answer to Question No. 18 from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Portion, thereby affecting...
The Delhi High Court has reserved verdict on a petition challenging the results of Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 for admissions in top management institutes.
Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju reserved judgment in the plea moved by a candidate, Aditya Kumar Mallick, who is aggrieved with an incorrect answer to Question No. 18 from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Portion, thereby affecting the exam results.
While reserving the verdict, the Court orally remarked that it cannot intervene in disputes relating to competitive exams, except in limited circumstances.
The Court said that it only interferes in such disputes when there is an “egregious wrong” but it will not do so when there is a “grey area.”
The exam in question was conducted on November 24, 2024. The provisional answer key was released on December 03.
The petitioner candidate raised an objection to the provisional answer key, contending that there was an error in an answer declared for question no 18 of the English comprehension section of the examination.
It is the petitioner's case that despite his objection, the final answer key was released with no change in the provisional answer key.
He has contended that his objection is supported by distinguished experts and faculty members of various CAT coaching centres.
He further submitted that IIM Calcutta hurriedly declared the results on December 19 without giving any reason or affording him time to take legal recourse.
The candidate has averred that the result was expected in the second week of January, and the haste in declaring results in December "speaks volumes."
The petitioner candidate was represented by Advocates Praveen Kumar Singh, Sanal Nambiar, Ishita Goel and Chetna Singh.
IIM Calcutta was represented by Senior Advocate Arvind Nayar instructed by the team of Fox & Mandal led by Advocate Kunal Vajani along with Advocates Kunal Mimani, Sharmistha Ghosh, Kartikey Bhatt and Tanish Arora.
Title: Aditya Kumar Mallick vs Union of India and Anr.