HC allows St Stephen’s College to hold interviews for minority seat admissions

The Delhi High Court has permitted St Stephen’s College to conduct interviews for granting admission to students under the minority quota, besides taking into consideration their common university entrance test scores. A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma similarly permitted Jesus and Mary College to hold interviews for the seats reserved for minority students.
The court’s order came on applications by the two minority colleges to stay a December 8, 2022, decision of the executive council of the Delhi University (DU) insisting on 100 percent weightage for the CUET 2023 score for admission to minority quota.  The applications were filed in petitions by the colleges challenging the notification.
Besides the pleas of the two colleges, the court order was also passed on a petition by a woman, Sharon Ann George, against the interviews for minority students at the St Stephen›s College in addition to the CUET. The court, in its order, observed that in an earlier decision, it has already discussed the extent to which DU can regulate the admission of minority students and ruled that St Stephen›s has the right to conduct interviews with 15 per cent weightage for minority students, but not for non-minority students.