Justice Challa Kondandaram of Hyderabad High Court stayed the process of admission into Ph.D programme in Osmania University. The judge granted interim stay order in cases filed by several students. The court was told that when the notification was issued in 2014 the minimum qualifying marks in a written test were notified as 50 per cent for other communities, 40 per cent for BCs and 30 per cent for SC/ST students. The petitioners said that after the test was over and the minimum qualifying marks were reduced by 10 in each category.
