The State government filed an appeal before a Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka challenging the single judge’s order of quashing CET-2022 ranking for UG engineering courses and directing the Karnataka Examinations Authority to redo the ranking by taking II PU marks and CET-2022 marks in the ratio of 50:50, even for the students who passed II PU in 2021.
The appeal is listed for hearing before the Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty on Thursday.
The government, in its appeal, has contended that the single judge had erred in holding that the rule amended in 2021 to consider only the marks of CET to allot ranks in CET-2021 in view of non-holding of II PU exams in the year 2021 due to COVID-19 was applicable only to the students who wrote CET-2021.
