The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday came to the rescue of a Dalit youth who had lost his seat in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Dhanbad after missing the deadline to deposit the acceptance fee and asked the authorities to admit the 18-year-old student to the BTech course, news agency PTI reported.

"We cannot allow such a young talented boy to go away. He cannot be left in lurch," stated the SC bench, comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.