IIT Aspirants Who Appeared In JEE-Advanced In 2020 & 2021 Move Supreme Court For Extra Chance In JEE-Advanced 2022

The impugned notice dated December 30, 2021 issued by Joint Admission Board grants one more chance to appear in the JEE (Advanced) to the students of 2020 batch who:

i. did not register for the JEE (MAIN) in both years 2020 and 2021

ii. registered for the JEE (MAIN) in the year 2020 or 2021 or both but were unable to qualify JEE (MAIN) once or both times

iii. qualified the JEE (MAIN) in 2020 and 2021 but did not register and appear in JEE (Advanced) 2020 or 2021 or both

But the notice makes the students who were not able to qualify JEE Advanced or who were qualified but got low rank ineligible.

It has been argued in the petition that the impugned notice along with being arbitrary and discriminatory is in the teeth of Top Court's judgement in Vijay Lakshmi v Punjab University 2003 (8) SCC 440.

In the said judgement the Top Court had observed that Question of unequal treatment does not arise if there are different sets of Circumstances.

Against this backdrop, the plea states that, "Now in the present case there are no change in circumstances under which relaxation is being given to the students who failed to qualify the preliminary exam - JEE(Main) and by default could not sit for JEE(Advanced); and to those who did qualify JEE(Main) but did not register for JEE(Advanced); and to those who did not even register for JEE(Main) in the 1st place but such relaxation is being denied to the petitioners herein who qualified JEE(Main) both times and appeared in JEE(Advanced) both times in 2020 and 2021 under same circumstances."

The petition in which the petitioners have sought to allow them to appear in JEE Advanced 2022 is filed through AOR Sachin Sharma. 

Case Title: Nilesh Jha & Ors. v UOI & Ors