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IIM alumni move apex court

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New Delhi: The Pan-IIM Alumni Association on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the directions issued by the Centre to the six IIMs to put on hold admissions till the apex court decided the quota issue.

The petitioner contended that the directions issued on April 5 and 19 were a mode of arm-twisting adopted by the Government to implement the policy of reservation even though the same was without jurisdiction. It said that pursuant to the two communications, the IIMs convened a meeting on April 21 and postponed the admission process.

The petitioner contended that the action of the Government was seriously prejudicing not only the future of the students who waited for admissions in the institutions concerned but would also affect the quality of students taking admissions in the various IIMs as from the common entrance examination by the IIMs, not just the IIMs "take students but nearly 40 other institutions take students."

When Mr. Harish Salve mentioned this petition for early hearing before a Bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice L.S. Panta, the Bench said, "it will come up for hearing in the normal course."

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