With the litigant CET 2022 repeaters consenting for ‘normalisation’ of their second PU marks of 2021 based on a scientific methodology suggested by a committee of experts, the High Court of Karnataka on September 23 permitted the State Government and the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) to go ahead with the process of assigning CET 2022 ranks afresh after ‘normalisation’ of the marks of repeaters, who had passed second PU in 2021.
A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty passed the order while disposing of the appeals filed by the government and the KEA questioning a single-judge bench’s order of September 3, which had set aside the ranks swarded to CET repeaters without considering their second PU marks of 2021.
After going to the committee’s report, the division bench orally told Additional Advocate General Dhyan Chinnappa, who represented the government, and advocate N.K. Ramesh, who represented the KEA, that both the authorities have done ‘a remarkable job’ in finding a solution for an unusual issue. The committee was set up on September 20 after the bench, on September 19, asked both the authorities to explore the possibility of an amicable solution.
