SC helps IIT-Bombay entrant who inadvertently withdrew admission

In a big relief to an 18yearold student who had almost lost his seat in IITBombay by unintentionally clicking on a wrong link the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the institute to regularise his admission in an engineering courseSiddhant Batra a resident of Agra had lost the seat for the fouryear electrical engineering course after he inadvertently clicked on a wrong link which was seeking consent to withdraw from the process He moved the top court through advocate Pratiksha SharmaA bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy on Wednesday regularized his admission after it granted him interim admission in an engineering course on December 9 According to Batras lawyer her client won the case and the top court has disposed off his plea Sharma said the top court emphasized that this order should not be treated as a precedentOur appeal was allowed and admission regularised It will not be treated as a precedent for other students who have withdrawn This was a relief for meritorious Siddhant AIR 270 who committed an error by mistake under a bonafide intention and Supreme Court intervened and helped save his career said SharmaOn December 9 the top court had said List in the reopening miscellaneous week after the winter recess In the meantime by interim order we direct that the petitioner should be permitted to join the respondentinstitution and pursue his course subject to fulfilment of all other formalitiesIn the plea Batra had sought direction to the IIT to consider his case on humanitarian grounds He said he lives with his grandparents following the death of his parents and submitted that he had worked hard to clear the IITJEE exam Batra requested the creation of an additional seat to undo his lossEarlier in his plea before the Bombay High Court Batra submitted that he had lost his father at a young age and lost his mother in 2018In the last hearing the counsel for Director IITBombay had drawn the top courts attention to Rule 46 to submit that Batra had frozen his seat as per the said rule and completed the processBatra moved the top court challenging the Bombay High Court which dismissed his plea on November 23 saying that it cannot intervene at this stage as all the seats for the course were fullThe High Court citing the IITBombay submissions had emphasized the admission rules had to be followed and Batra could apply next year for JEE AdvancedBatra had secured All India Rank AIR of 270 in JEE Advanced exams and secured admission but he had clicked the wrong link which was meant to withdraw his seatSenior advocate Basava Prabhu SPatil argued the matter on behalf of Batra before the courtThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever