The
Supreme Court has asked the Delhi High Court to consider with "requisite
urgency" a plea filed by St Stephen's College in Delhi against a high
court order which had asked it to follow the admission policy of Delhi
University. The Delhi High Court had on September 12 last year asked the
Christian minority institution to follow the admission policy formulated by the
Delhi University according to which 100 percent weightage has to be given to
the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-2022 score while granting admission
to non-minority students in its undergraduate courses. The high court had said
the college cannot conduct interviews for non-minority category students and
that the admission should be as per the CUET score alone. A bench of Justices
BR Gavai and JB Pardiwala clarified that the high court can hear the matter. "We
clarify that the high court will be at liberty to proceed further with the
hearing of the writ petition pertaining to admissions under the minority quota.
"It is needless to state that since the matter pertains to admissions for
the present academic year, the high court would consider the same with
requisite urgency," the bench said.
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