Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has refused to interfere in the selection process of Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIM-A).
“There are a series of considerations for conducting such a test which are best left to the experts in the field,” an HC bench ruled on Thursday while hearing a petition filed by an aspirant who was not selected.
The bench also stated that the role of statutory expert bodies on education and the role of courts is well defined by a simple rule, wherein if any provision of law or principle of law has to be interpreted, applied, or enforced with reference to or connected with education, the court will step in. Otherwise, if the question is related to education policy or an issue involving academic matters, “the court should keep their hands off,” Indian Express reported.
The aspirant, Raghav Gupta, had filed the petition in the HC after he failed to secure admission at IIM-A despite ranking among the top 110 students to clear the common admission test (CAT).
He pleaded to the HC that the IIM-A procedure of selecting candidates, 50% marks for personal interviews and only 25% to CAT scores, should be set aside.
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