The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the National Testing Agency (NTA) in relation to a petition alleging discrepancies in a JEE Main 2025 scorecard, which raised issues regarding result accuracy and procedural fairness. Justice Vikas Mahajan has listed the case for further hearing on May 29.
The petition, filed via Advocate Ajay Kumar, states that the petitioner—an Indian student studying in Muscat, Oman—appeared for the JEE Main 2025 in two different sessions (January 23 and April 2). However, the candidate reportedly received two different percentiles (55.3923599 and 89.4152364) under the same application number.
Upon seeking clarification, the NTA reportedly dismissed the higher percentile as “forged” and referred the matter to its Unfair Means (UFM) Committee without issuing a show-cause notice or conducting an inquiry. The petitioner contends that no final report was shared despite the UFM Committee’s decision.
Then, when the April session results were announced on the 19th of April, along with his April session scorecard, the petitioner’s scorecard read UFM and contained a note that the petitioner was “debarred for 2025-26 and 2026-27.” The NTA invoked Paragraph 5.5 in the JEE Main 2025 Information Bulletin, which deals with candidates submitting multiple application forms. However, the petitioner stated that because he had submitted only one application form, the provision did not apply.
The petitioner asserted further that while the NTA had claimed on 20 May 2025 that the final scorecard had been uploaded to the website under “fifth session results,” as of 21 May 2025, the petitioner’s scorecard still contained the UFM label. The admissions for foreign students under the DASA scheme were scheduled to begin in early June 2023, and the petitioner stated each deadline was crucial as he faced an uncertainty that persisted due to the UFM tag and which would impact his ability to secure a seat in an NIT, IIIT, or other Centrally Funded Technical Institute (CFTI).
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