New Delhi, August 23
The Supreme Court today gave a day’s time to Guru Nanak Dev (GND) University to formulate its stand on Punjab Pre-Medical Entrance Test (PMET) after indicating that the only three or four of the 10 controversial “key answers” referred for the opinion of the Delhi University and the CBSE were found to be correct.
Without clearly indicating whether it were three or four key answers on which the Delhi University and the CBSE had arrived at a unanimous opinion while differing on the remaining ones, a Bench of Mr Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Mr Justice B.N. Srikrishna and Mr Justice P.P. Naolekar ordered the handing over of the results of all 10 questions to GND University counsel to take a stand on it by Wednesday.
Indicating that the court would issue the final order tomorrow after knowing the stand of the university, which was asked to prepare a tabulation for presentation before the Bench to show as how many questions it would consider for preparing a fresh merit list.
The court gave an option to it that it could deduct all those seven questions from the list of 200, which it had admitted to be wrong and had given 28 marks in lieu of the same to all students. The Bench further indicated that it could consider inclusion of those questions which were confirmed correct by Delhi University and the CBSE in their unanimous opinion.
The court rejected the plea of the counsel of those students, who had first taken the matter to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, to consider the inclusion of 11 other questions in the list about whose key answers doubts had been raised. Mr Manoj Swaroop said had the number of wrong answers gone up, then there was a point in raising such issues.
Senior advocate P.P. Rao, appearing for these students who had moved the court for fresh examining of all 200 questions by the CBSE in the wake of the controversy, said in the interest of students the matter should not be precipitated further as it would affect hundreds of students.
Agreeing to his suggestion, the court said in the interest of students the issue of correctness of key answers should not be further dug in as it would lead to an unending controversy.
