An 18-year-old student has lost his seat for a 4-year electrical engineering course in the prestigious IIT Bombay after he “inadvertently” clicked on a “wrong” link which was meant to withdraw from the process.
The student, Siddhant Batra who hails from Agra, has now approached the Apex Court seeking a direction to the institution to admit him after the IIT said it can't intervene at this stage as all the seats for the course were full & admission rules had to be followed.
It said Batra could apply again next year for JEE (Advanced).
The High Court of Bombay had initially directed the IIT to consider Batra’s plea after he approached it earlier this month, as representation & pass appropriate orders.
Batra, who had secured All India Rank (AIR) of 270 in JEE Advanced exams & secured admission, claimed in his petition that he had clicked the wrong link which was meant to withdraw his seat. Batra intended to freeze the seat, the plea said.
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On Nov 23, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta & Justice G S Kulkarni dismissed Batra’s plea noting that IIT had considered his representation & passed its order.
In his plea to the Apex Court, Batra has sought a direction to the IIT to consider his case on humanitarian grounds, & requested the creation of an additional seat to undo his loss.
Batra, who lives with his grandparents following death of his parents, in the plea said he had worked hard against all odds to crack IIT JEE exams.
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The plea, filed through advocate Pralhad Paranjpe, said Batra had lost his father when he was a child & was brought up by his mother who passed away in 2018.
As per his plea, Batra, while filling out the admission process online, came upon a page with ‘freeze’ option, which he thought meant confirming the seat & the completion of his admission process.
The appeal said that “On October 31, 2020 when Batra was surfing the IIT portal to check for further updates, he came upon a link which carried a declaration that read ‘I would like to withdraw from the seat allocation process of JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority’".
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As per the plea, Batra inadvertently clicked on this link & stated ‘IIT Bombay, Electrical Engineering’ as reasons for withdrawal. It added that Batra never intended to withdraw his admission.
In Nov 2020, when the final list of students was uploaded on the IIT portal, Batra’s name was not included.
However, the IIT, in its order, said the withdrawal option was a “conscious” two-step process.
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It said candidates who want to withdraw before the final round can do so & the ‘seat acceptance fee’ gets refunded, adding that once a candidate has withdrawn then his or her seat stands cancelled.
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