Kerala HC stays publication of entrance exam results to agricultural universities nationwide

A Single Judge Bench of the Kerala High Court has stayed the publication of the results of an All India Entrance Examination (AIEE) for admission to postgraduate and undergraduate programs, to agricultural universities nationwide..The exam was conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research for the academic session 2018-19..Justice Mohammed Mushtaq was hearing a writ petition filed by two aspirants from Kerala who sought the court’s intervention on the grounds that the examination which was conducted on the 18th and 19th of this month made it impossible for many aspirants to appear..Kerala is reeling from unprecedented flooding which has rendered many modes of transportation unmotorable..The examination had been conducted online two months earlier, but the results were not published owing to a dictum issued by the Madras High Court, based on the fact that certain technical glitches had rendered the process unfair to some..The petitioners before the Kerala High Court also stated that they had made representations to the Kerala Government that the examinations should be postponed in light of the prevailing circumstances, and that the same had been taken up by a minister in the Kerala cabinet with the authorities responsible for the conduct of the examination, but to no avail..The petition also states that ad-hoc examination centers had been suddenly notified, and given the circumstances prevailing only half of the aspirants had been able to take the examination..Read the petition