Best-5 case: Hearing today, admissions wait

Arguments for the Best-5 policy will continue for at least another day in the Supreme Court, further delaying junior college admissions.

Arguments for the Best-5 policy will continue for at least another day in the Supreme Court, further delaying junior college admissions.

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The court asked why the Maharashtra government discriminates among ICSE students during junior college admissions.

The query came from a bench headed by Justice VS Sirpurkar after the state said it calculates the percentage of ICSE students based on all seven subjects. But if a student fails in one subject, the percentage is based on six subjects and if a student fails in two subjects, the percentage is based on five subjects.

“This puts a student who clears all seven subjects at a disadvantage,” the court told senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for the SSC board.