Delhi High Court Rejects Plea Alleging Discrepancies In 2025 JEE (Main) Exam, Says NTA's Claim Prevails When No Technical Error
New Delhi – The Delhi High Court has asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond to a petition filed by a student who appeared for the JEE Main 2025 and alleged serious errors in his scorecard, which he claims could affect his admission prospects under the DASA scheme.
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Justice Vikas Mahajan heard the matter and listed it for the next hearing on May 29, 2025. The court’s notice came after the student, an Indian national studying in Muscat, Oman, filed a petition through Advocate Ajay Kumar, highlighting inconsistencies in his exam results and procedural lapses by the NTA.
According to the petition, the student appeared for JEE Main 2025 in two sessions—January 23 and April 2—under the same application number. However, he allegedly received two very different percentile scores:
“55.3923599 and 89.4152364”
The petitioner became concerned and contacted the NTA for clarification. But instead of resolving the issue, the agency dismissed the higher percentile as fake, calling it:
“forged”
The petition alleges that the NTA referred the matter to its Unfair Means (UFM) Committee without giving the student a chance to explain. The petitioner said he was not served a show-cause notice, and no inquiry was conducted. Moreover, he claims that he never received a final report from the UFM Committee, leaving him in the dark.
When the April session results were released on April 19, the student was shocked to find his scorecard marked with “UFM”, along with a remark saying:
“debarred for 2025-26 and 2026-27”
The NTA justified this action by referring to Paragraph 5.5 of the JEE Main 2025 Information Bulletin, which warns against submitting multiple application forms.
However, the student claims this does not apply to him because:
“he had only one application”
The plea also mentions that on May 20, the NTA informed the student that the final scorecard had been uploaded. But even by May 21, the “UFM” remark was still there, causing further stress and confusion.
The student has applied under the Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) scheme, which allows foreign-based Indian students to get admission in top government engineering colleges like NITs, IIITs, and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs).
However, since DASA admissions are set to begin in early June, the petitioner fears that the “unresolved issue could jeopardize his chances of securing a seat in NITs, IIITs, or other Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs).”