Percentile case: Fresh hearing starts

MUMBAI: After the split verdict from the Bombay high court earlier this week, a third judge on Friday began a fresh hearing of the petition challenging the percentile system introduced by the state in June.
Justice J N Patel will continue to hear the case on Saturday . Earlier, Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar favoured the petitioners and quashed the government resolution (GR) as being illegal and arbitrary , while Justice A P Deshpande upheld the GR and said it was not discriminatory or unreasonable.
Counsel Raju Subramaniam , appearing for the parents ' association of ICSE schools, opened the arguments and submitted that the factual assessment of Justice Deshpande is wrong. Based on the varying judgments, Subramaniam argued that the standard of evaluation in the three boards is different. "But there is no material to substantiate that,'' he said. He submitted that such a system can be applied only where standard of evaluation is equal.