Updated Jan 07, 2021 | 09:06 IST
Supreme Court of India has confirmed the admission at IIT Bombay for Siddhant Batra. Batra had sought intervention when he had accidentally withdrawn himself from the counselling process and lost his seat. SC confirms IIT admission for teen in wrong key case | Photo Credit: Representative Image
In the IIT Bombay admission case regarding the alleged ‘wrong key’ and inadvertent error, Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the child. Calling it an ‘apparent mistake’, SC has confirmed the admission of the 18 year old boy in IIT Bombay. The apex court, however, has also asked that this order should not be treated as a precedent.
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MUMBAI: In an interim order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that IIT Bombay should permit 18-year-old Siddhant Batra to join and pursue classes for a BTech course in electrical engineering. He had scored an all-India JEE rank of 270 and secured the seat in October, only to lose within two weeks to an error he said he made online during the admission process. TOI was the first to report the matter on November 30.
At a virtual hearing on Wednesday, an SC bench of Justices S K Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy began by asking the IIT counsel, “Tell us why you are not allowing? This is not fair.When someone’s admission is complete… why would a meritorious student who had already got admission want to cancel it?” Permitting the admission, the SC observed, “There is something known as common sense too”.