Admission interviews for minority students at JMC, St Stephen's get HC's nod

The Delhi high court has allowed St Stephen's College and Jesus and Mary College (JMC) to interview Christian candidates seeking admission under the minority quota, but stressed that the institutions must give significant weightage to the students' Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores.

- Richa Banka

The decision, dated July 21 but released on Thursday, essentially reiterated an order the same court passed in September last year.

The bench of chief justice Satish Chandra Sharma and justice Subramonium Prasad in the latest order said the arrangement will be an interim measure, adding that admissions to the two colleges will eventually be subject to the final outcome of a bunch of petitions that have challenged Delhi University's (DU) order making CUET scores the only basis for admissions even under minority quotas.

"The admissions made in the college would be subject to the final outcome of the instant writ petitions," the court said.

The court's interim order came after petitions from the two colleges-both minority institutions, affiliated with DU- asking for a stay on the university's December 8, 2022 decision.