The Supreme Court on Monday came to the rescue of a Dalit youth who lost his seat Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad after failing to deposit the admission fee by the last date.
The top court asked the institute to admit Dalit youth to B-Tech course.
“We cannot allow such a young talented boy to go away. They cannot be left in limbo,” a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra said.
“We are of the view that a brilliant student like the petitioner, who belongs to a marginalized group, who did everything to secure admission, should not be left out… We direct that the candidate be granted admission IIT Dhanbad And he should be allowed to remain in the same batch in which he would have been admitted had the fees been paid,” the bench said in the order.
The apex court used its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution in asking this IIT Dhanbad To grant admission to Atul Kumar in his Electrical Engineering B.Tech course.
Article 142 of the Constitution empowers the Supreme Court to pass any order in the interest of justice.
Atul Kumar, 18, son of a daily wage laborer, hails from a below poverty line (BPL) family living in Titora village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
he had failed to submit The last date for depositing the fee required to block a seat is Rs 17,500 as acceptance fee till June 24.
His parents had also approached the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Jharkhand Legal Services Authority and Madras High Court to save the hard-earned seat.
However, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes had expressed its inability to help them.
Since Atul had given JEE at a center in Jharkhand, the young man had also approached the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority, which suggested him to approach the Madras High Court as it was IIT Madras that conducted the examination.
The High Court had asked him to go to the Supreme Court.
