Summary:
The crux of the problem revolves around the meritorious students getting seats at one college and they later sliding to their preferred college. This will ensure that all the meritorious candidates are accommodated and the reserved candidates do not suffer, the bench said. Rerun your programme in tune with this, prepare the data accordingly and furnish the same to us on Friday, the bench told the counsel for the varisities. Permitting the universities to rerun the programme so that data could be obtained to see if the reservation crosses the benchmark of 50 percent, the bench said. Senior counsel K G Krishna Murthy appeared for the reserved categories and made a suggestion to the court stating that the seats in the most preferred colleges could be filled up on the basis of merit without sliding..