The order came on a petition filed by Hana Fatima Ahnus, a KEAM candidate, along with others, who argued that the weightage criteria had been altered after the prospectus was published.

The petitioner contended that the ranking procedure was amended on the very day the rank list was released, adversely affecting her rank, which dropped to 4,209. By contrast, a candidate with similar marks in 2024 had secured a rank of 1,907. She described the amendment as “arbitrary, illegal and mala fide.”

She further alleged that the change was motivated by an intent “to eliminate the weightage previously accorded to CBSE and ICSE students.”