In an apparent bid to linger on the process of taking the corrective measures on faulty application of equi percentile methodology in MAH CET 2015 result, the counsel representing Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Maharashtra chose to remain absent during the hearing on PIL/39/2015 before Bombay High Court on April 20, 2015. The reason of DTE counsel remaining absent on the crucial day was not discolosed by DTE Maharashtra.
Despite showing its concern that no injustice should be done to any of 57224 MAH CET 2015 test takers and Centralized Admission Process for all should be conducted timely, Directorate of Technical Education, instead of coming out with some solution to expedite the process, chose to keep itself away from the hearing in High Court on April 20, 2015.
Consecutive Hearing dates
High Court of Bombay is in no mood to linger on the process and as such has fixed today April 21, 2015 as the next date of hearing after April 20 when DTE counsel did not present himself before the court.
Since no justified reason was shared by the DTE before the honourable court for the absence of its counsel, the High Court did not take it well and didn’t prefer to wait for the counsel. The arguments are now proposed to be held today April 21, 2015.
DTE to come with corrective measures
Earlier in the court room on April 15, 2015 DTE stated that they have been very serious on the issue of equi percentile calculation in MAH CET 2015 result since the career of more than 57000 MAH CET 2015 test takers was at stake.
Asking for the next date of hearing, Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Maharashtra assured the court on April 15, 2015 to come up with necessary corrective measures to rectify the faulty application of equi percentile method.
Bombay High Court however put stay on the MBA/MMS admission process till the PILs are sorted out and asked DTE to present its view point on April 20, 2015.
Court also directed to club all petitions to be heard at Bombay High court as all the cases are similar but DTE could not honour its commitment and didn’t come up with any corrective measures on April 20, 2015 before the court.
DTE buying time
With no corrective measures in hand, nor agreeing for re-exam, it may not be surprising if DTE is eyeing to buy more time to arrive at some solution. Even if there is re-exam DTE may not be sure of conducting it error free technically and question paper wise.
In hearing on April 15, 2015 before the High Court, DTE although softened its stand and offered to come up with some corrective measures on April 20, 2015 the next date of hearing but instead of the corrective measures DTE kept its counsel away from appearing before the court.
Candidates smell a rat
The aggrieved test takers are now afraid of DTE taking a U-turn despite its promise before the Bombay High Court to come up with corrective methodology to apply equi-percentile process. According to the petitioner candidates “We will not be surprised by U-turn of DTE saying equi-percentile method is correct and may try to divert attention of the court towards how the method is correct”
DTE might be contemplating and weighing the pros and cons of the PILs which might have prompted it not to depute its representative before the court. Instead of coming up with some corrective measure, DTE might have got some idea from somewhere to prove how a 155 out of 200 scorer can get a higher percentile than a 160 scorer out of 200.
The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with Lodging No. PIL/39/2015 has again come up for hearing today on April 21, 2015 in Bombay High Court before the bench of Hon’ble Justice V.M. Kande and Hon’ble Justice A.R. Joshi. The Court might take a tough stand in case DTE again chooses to remain absent or doesn’t co-operate in the matter so that the fate of 57224 test takers can be decided without any delay and without any injustice to any of the candidates. Hon’ble High Court has already asked DTE Maharashtra to halt the admission process till the issue got sorted out although DTE Maharashtra has not officially disclosed this directive of the court.
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