Acting Chief Justice Girish Gupta and Justice Arindam Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board to publish the names and marks obtained by the first 4,000 rankers in the 2016 state medical entrance test. The marks are to be published with roll number, date of birth, name and marks within 10 days.

The order came on a petition claiming that there were irregularities in the names which appeared in the list of successful candidates in the 2016 state medical joint entrance examination.

Advocate Jishnu Saha and Anamika Pandey had filed a PIL for the marksheet to be made transparent. The petitioner made a prayer, “Let the marksheets of all the candidates be published with date of birth, the marks in class 12 in physics, chemistry and biology. When the result of medical entrance test is published in all other states of the country, the candidates’ roll number, marks obtained, gender, category, domicile, and total marks scored are published.

“In West Bengal alone, Presidency University publishes in this form, but then why shall the scores in the medical exam not be published with all the details? Till last year, a detailed matrix was published even in West Bengal. This is the last year when the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board was held as from the next year, NEET would be held.”

The petitioners’ counsel submitted, “When the results are published on the website, the candidates can fill in the roll number and see their results. But this time, the West Bengal joint entrance examination has included roll number and date of birth in order to check results. This has resulted in candidates only being able to view their own results and not the complete list.

“The board has purposely not published the entire merit list. This time, even students from Tripura and Assam, have been allowed to sit for the exam. It is very easy to fill seats on grounds of domicile, because there are no means to check if the domicile stated is correct. Unless the state shows how the selection has happened, we would not know the true story. There is complete manipulation and seats are being sold.”

Advocate General Jayanto Mitra submitted, “As many as 55,000 candidates sat for the examination, while 12,000 odd candidates have been selected. The aggrieved students are coming forward to stall the entire process. It is not possible to publish the marks of all 12,000 students.”

On 30 May, the West Bengal government had decided to conduct its own common entrance examination on 20 July for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.