New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the position of St. Stephen's College in an appeal filed by the University of Delhi challenging an order allowing the former to conduct interviews of minority students seeking admission in postgraduate courses and allocate 15 points per interview grade. and 85 percent to the CUET score.
A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued notice on Delhi University's (DU) appeal against the order passed by a single judge of the apex court on April 22.
In the judgment, the single judge clarified that non-minority students would not be subjected to any interview for admission to PG courses in the university and their admission would be based solely on their score in the Common University Entrance Test ( CUET), which is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission in central universities.
The single judge had also said that DU would ensure that the allocation of PG seats in the university is not disproportionate.
The university had alleged in its plea before the single judge that while it allocated seats for admission to PG courses in colleges affiliated to it, DU allocated a disproportionately small number of seats to St. Stephen's College.
In its response, DU had seriously objected to the university's practice of subjecting already shortlisted students to an additional round of interviews for admission into its postgraduate (PG) courses.
He had said that while all other universities respected the selection process adopted by the University before allocating students to PG courses, the petitioner university was the only one to adopt a different course and subject the selected students to an additional round of interviews.
Later, the university counsel submitted that as long as the petitioner college restricted the conduct of interviews for admission of PG students to students belonging to the minority Christian community, the DU would not have any objection and would ensure that PG Seats were proportionately allocated to St. Stephen's College.
The appeal will be heard next October.
A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued notice on Delhi University's (DU) appeal against the order passed by a single judge of the apex court on April 22.
In the judgment, the single judge clarified that non-minority students would not be subjected to any interview for admission to PG courses in the university and their admission would be based solely on their score in the Common University Entrance Test ( CUET), which is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission in central universities.
The single judge had also said that DU would ensure that the allocation of PG seats in the university is not disproportionate.
The university had alleged in its plea before the single judge that while it allocated seats for admission to PG courses in colleges affiliated to it, DU allocated a disproportionately small number of seats to St. Stephen's College.
In its response, DU had seriously objected to the university's practice of subjecting already shortlisted students to an additional round of interviews for admission into its postgraduate (PG) courses.
He had said that while all other universities respected the selection process adopted by the University before allocating students to PG courses, the petitioner university was the only one to adopt a different course and subject the selected students to an additional round of interviews.
Later, the university counsel submitted that as long as the petitioner college restricted the conduct of interviews for admission of PG students to students belonging to the minority Christian community, the DU would not have any objection and would ensure that PG Seats were proportionately allocated to St. Stephen's College.
The appeal will be heard next October.
