High Court scraps plea against normalisation of marks in Maharashtra government’s common entrance test for MBA

The Bombay High Court on 11th July rejected a petition filed by 154 students against the process of normalisation of marks adopted by the Maharashtra government’s Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell for admission to MBA course 2023

The Bombay High Court on July 11 rejected a petition filed by 154 students against the process of normalisation of marks adopted by the Maharashtra government’s Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell for admission to the 2023 batch of the MBA course.

A Division Bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale termed the plea as “without substance”, and said that, out of the more than one lakh students who appeared for the examination, only the petitioners had raised objections.

“The 154 petitioners here do not represent the over–one lakh students who appeared for the exams. It is also indeed telling that all the complaints made in the petition have been made only after the exams were held and the results were declared,” the court said.

The court further said that it was refraining from imposing cost only because the petitioners are students.

The Bench noted that the petitioners had sought that the CET be conducted again.

“No thought is spared to hundreds of thousands of others who gave the entrance exam. The petitioners do not represent all candidates,” the court said.

The order was passed on a plea filed by the 154 students, who raised objections to the normalisation of marks process adopted by the CET cell after it conducted a re-test for some students.