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Interim orders on deletion of TNPCEE questions likely

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 9. The Madras High Court, hearing marathon arguments by counsel for the Anna University and those representing Plus-Two students aggrieved by the deletion of 22 `ambiguous questions' in the entrance test for professional courses, is to grant interim relief to students tomorrow.

Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra, hearing a batch of writ petitions, required time to ascertain what impact would be there if all correct answers were ordered to be valued and awarded marks, irrespective of the fact that certain questions had more than one correct answer.

Considering that the last date for submitting filled-in applications for medical education was June 11, the court felt that all deadlines relating to submission and processing of applications and the admission process itself could be extended by a week.

Senior counsel for the university, G. Masilamani, also told the court that benefits, if any, of the present round of litigation should be ordered to be applicable to all students who wrote the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination, and not just to those before the court.

Though the court was favourably inclined to grant some relief to the petitioner-students with regard to awarding marks to all correct answers and ruling against the university practice of re-distributing the marks of deleted questions to other questions, it adjourned the matter to Thursday after one of the advocates raised the question of its impact on the TNPCEE marks and rankings.

Mr. Masilamani gave an undertaking that the university required only two full working days for carrying out the procedures to be enumerated by the court. Mr. Justice Misra then said he would grant three days to the university and added that the original deadlines for various formalities could be extended by a week accordingly.

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