India, Aug. 22 -- The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board (WBJEEB) announced the result for admissions to undergraduate engineering, technology, pharmacy, and architecture courses on Friday, hours after the Supreme Court stayed a Calcutta high court order scrapping the merit list.

The high court had directed the WBJEEB to prepare a fresh merit list. "The WBJEEB shall recast the merit list and publish a fresh panel, providing 7% reservation for the 66 classes of OBC candidates as recognised by the West Bengal Backward Classes Department prior to 2010," the order said.

Aniruddha Chakrabarti from Don Bosco School in Park Circus was declared the topper. Samyajyoti Biswas from Kalyani Central Model School in Kalyani stood second, an...