A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia on July 1, 2026, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the organisation Justice for All. File
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The Delhi High Court has refused to strike down a rule that allows private unaided professional colleges in Delhi to conduct admissions to their 10% management quota seats independently, holding that the system is consistent with the rule.A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia on July 1, 2026, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the organisation ‘Justice for All’, which had challenged Rule 8(2)(a)(v) of the Delhi Professional Colleges Rules, 2007.Advocate Khagesh B. Jha, appearing for the organisation, sought directions to ensure that all seats, including the 10% management quota seats (MQS), be filled through a common, centralised, transparent, online counselling process conducted by the designated agency under the supervision of the Admission Regulatory Committee (ARC).The Court, however, held that the statutory scheme under the Delhi Professional Colleges Act clearly distinguishes management quota seats from the remaining 90% seats.“If we examine the Scheme of the Act for admission, what we find is that Section 12 of the Act prescribes for allocation and reservation of seats and Section 12(a) of the Act provides that 10% of the total seats in an unaided institution shall be allocated as MQS,” the Court said.On the submission of Mr. Jha that the private unaided institution conducts counselling simultaneously, which disallows a candidate to participate in the counselling for seeking admission to more than one such institutions, the court said such grievances “does not make Rule 8(2)(a)(v) of the Rules bad in law”.“The scheme of the Act permits an institution to make admission against the MQS once the counselling by designated agency is over for making admissions against rest of the 90% seats,” the Court highlighted. Published - July 04, 2026 04:17 am IST
