Why Supreme Court intervened and granted this Dalit Student admission to IIT Dhanbad; know the story
The Supreme Court came to the rescue of a Dalit youth, who had lost his seat in IIT Dhanbad after missing the deadline to deposit a fee. Know the entire story here.
Dhanbad: The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a judgment that changed the lifetime of a bright Dalit student. Probably essentially the most effective possible court intervened to help the student, who had lost his seat at the celebrated IIT Dhanbad after missing the time limit to pay the admission fee for the BTech course. 18-year-old Atul Kumar became asked to deposit Rs 17,five hundred as the admission fees to subscribe to the IIT Dhanbad. The clock became ticking for him as he became given four days to get a hold of the admission money. His father, who is a wage labourer, tried his best to organize for the sum, but fate became no longer on their side, and that they ended up missing the time limit by a whisker. Consequently, the distraught father determined to are in search of justice at some point of the law and went to the pinnacle court of the usa.
“We won't be in a position to allow this kind of young talented boy to maneuver away. He won't be in a position to be left in lurch,” a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said.
Probably essentially the most effective possible court used its extra special powers less than Article 142 of the Constitution in asking the IIT Dhanbad to confess Atul Kumar into its Electrical Engineering BTech course.
“We are of the view that a talented student like the petitioner who belongs to a marginalised group who did all to secure admission won't be unnoticed… we direct that candidate is granted admission to IIT Dhanbad and let him be at some point of the same batch to which he would have been granted admission if the fees would have been paid,” the bench said at some point of the order.
Article 142 of the Constitution empowers the pinnacle court to pass any order at some point of the interest of justice.
The oldsters of Atul Kumar, 18, failed to deposit Rs 17,five hundred as the acceptance fee by June 24, the time limit for depositing the requisite fees for blockading the seat.
The oldsters of the formative years also approached the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Jharkhand Legal Products and services Authority and the Madras High Court to save the genuinely-earned seat.
Kumar, the son of a day-after-day wager, hails from a below poverty line (BPL) family living at Titora village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes also expressed its inability to help him.
As he had taken JEE at a centre in Jharkhand, the formative years had also moved the Jharkhand State Legal Products and services Authority which suggested him to approach the Madras High Court since it became IIT Madras that had conducted the exam.
The high court had asked him to approach the pinnacle court.
(With PTI Inputs)
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