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#SupremeCourt hears a plea by a student from Dalit community who had qualified for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay but missed out on a seat because of failure to remit seat acceptance fees on time due to technical glitches

Authorities inform that there are no vacant seats

SC: You must deal with the student in humanitarian approach, this is just bureaucracy. you cannot be wooden. You have to create a seat !

Authority: there are no seats in zonal IIT

DYC J: A lot of times seats fall vacant. you can adjust him there. Please tell the chairperson that student cannot be left in the lurch, He is a dalit boy and he did not have the money. you must understand the realities of what happens on the ground. find a way out

DYC J: There will be judicial order against you and then it will be a problem for you. you must understand the reality of our social life. Talk to the petitioner and see if something can be conveyed to the student

Matter to be taken up at 2 pm. #supremecourt

Matter resumes

Lawyer: All seats have been allocated. please pass directions under Article 142 so that we can create a seat and allocate the same. otherwise no seats available in entire IIT

Lawyer: there are 7 other students who too have missed out due to non payment of fees

SC: You must have a robust mechanism..everyone does not have multiple credit cards. so long they study for IIT entrance and student is deprived of admission

DYC J: There has to be some modality else only students from metropolitan city will join IITs.

DYC J: There should be some buffer for students who face these insurmountable hurdles.

Lawyer: thats why the grievance redressal mechanism exists

DYC J: Here the student was allotted IIT Bombay right?

SC ORDER: leave granted in SLP. the appellant appeared for the IIT JEE main exams in May 2021 and having qualified he appeared on oct 3 for IIT-JEE Advanced 2021 entrance exam

SC ORDER: Student secured an All India rank of 25,894 and within SC students, all india rank was 864. On october 15 first respondent had issued brochure citing business rules on joint seat allocation

SC ORDER: Rule 18 laid down rules on offer of seats. then the appellant was allocated B Tech civil engg seat in IIT Bombay. JSOO Portal was activated for online reporting till oct 31. online reporting included fees, document upload etc

SC ORDER: On oct 29 the appellant logged on to JSSO portal and uploaded documents. unfortunately the fees could not be paid as the student was short of funds and borrowed money from sister.

After arranging money, 10 to 12 attempts were made but payment could not be made due to technical error. Another attempt was made from a cyber cafe where same error occured, he called second respondent and emailed them too: SC Order

SC Order: based in UP student borrowed money to travel to the office of second respondent in kharagpur. Bombay HC was moved under article 226 seeking a writ to accept the fees and facilitate his admission. after being unsuccessful the student moved #SupremeCourt

SC ORDER: This court has before it a young dalit student who is on the verge of loosing a valued seat which has been allocated in IIT Bombay. the travails of appellant has taken him from allahabad to kharagpur then to bombay and then to delhi

SC: Having regard to facts of the case it would be a great travesty of justice if the young dalit student is denied admission for non payment of fees to IIT Bombay after having tried to do so. hence we are of the view that its a fit case of article 142 in interim stage

SC: We direct first and second respondent to ensure that seat allocated to the student be allocated to him in IIT Bombay and this should not disturb admission of any other student. creation of this seat will be subject to admission being regularised if seat falls vacant

SC: This order shall be given effect to in the next 48 hours.
#supremecourt #IITBombay

SC: If the petitioner is not to be admitted in current academic year he will be ineligible to appear after two consecutive attempts.

[BREAKING] Supreme Court orders creation of a seat in IIT Bombay for Dalit student who was unable to pay 'seat acceptance fees' on time due to technical issues

report by @DebayonRoy

#SupremeCourt #IITBombay #iitbombay

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