JUDGMENT

Jayant Nath, J. (Oral)

This hearing is conducted through Video-Conferencing.

1. This writ petition is filed by the petitioner seeking an appropriate writ to direct the respondents to conduct the petitioner's JEE Advance Examination, 2020 on a subsequent date.

2. The case of the petitioner is that in March 2020, IIT-Delhi issued an Information Brochure for conducting JEE (Advanced) Examination, 2020. To be eligible to appear in the JEE (Advanced) Examination, 2020, a candidate was required to obtain a rank in the top 2,50,000 candidates who appeared in the JEE (Mains) Examination. The petitioner is a General category candidate and as per the Information Brochure, only 96,187 were to be called upon to give JEE (Advanced) Examination in General category. Initially, the JEE (Mains) Examination, 2020 was to be held across the country between 5th April 2020 to 11th April 2020. However, on account of a nationwide lockdown due to the present Pandemic, the same was postponed on two occasions and was finally conducted on 1-6th September 2020. The petitioner appeared in the said examination and obtained a rank in the top 96,187 General category candidates. The petitioner had beco