New Delhi: Giving relief to IIT aspirants, the Supreme Court on Monday lifted the curbs on admissions to top engineering colleges it had imposed for award of bonus marks to all aspirants in the entrance exam.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, A.M. Kanwilkar and M.M. Shantanagouder, while vacating the stay order, took note of the submissions made by attorney- general K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the IITs, that the freeze on admissions will result in chaos as admission letters had already been issued to 33,000 students. On July 7, the apex court froze the admission process while hearing a plea complaining that there was discrimination in granting 18 bonus marks for wrong questions to all candidates who appeared in the IIT-JEE (Advanced) 2017 examination conducted by IIT-Madras. 

The bench asked the authorities to come out with a mechanism to ensure that similar mistakes did not recur in future.