Admission to IIT Dhanbad: Fee deadline missed by minutes due to ‘tech glitch’, UP youth knocks on SC door

Just 3 minutes earlier the deadline of 5 p.m. connected June 24 to corroborate his admission, the server of the portal stopped responding, claims Atul, sitting successful his three-room location successful Titora colony successful Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district. The interest of Rs 17,500 could not beryllium submitted and helium mislaid his seat. Rajendra is simply a regular wage labourer astatine a transformer mill successful Meerut and a part-time tailor. He earns Rs 10,000-12,000 a month.

“After we missed the deadline by a fewer seconds, we called IIT Dhanbad… Even the coaching institute wherever Atul studied tried reaching retired to the (IIT Dhanbad) authorities,” claimed Rajendra, adding that they got nary relief. The household past approached the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, the Jharkhand Legal Services Authority and the Madras High Court successful a bid to prevention Atul’s hard-earned seat. Eventually, they approached the Supreme Court.

Atul and his household initially sought assistance from the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority arsenic helium had appeared for the exam astatine a centre successful that state. He was advised to determination the Madras High Court arsenic it was IIT Madras that had conducted the exam. The High Court, successful turn, directed him to determination the Supreme Court.

Students and teachers astatine the GAIL Utkarsh Super 100 coaching centre successful Kanpur, wherever Atul had studied for 11 months, besides provided guidance to the family. “We are fortunate that our lawsuit came to the attraction of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud,” said Rajendra. “Three years ago, the CJI did thing wonderful…we are hopeful that helium volition regularisation successful our favour too.”

He was referring to a Supreme Court determination successful 2021 (Prince Jaibir Singh vs. Union of India), erstwhile a seat led by Justice Chandrachud allowed a Dalit pupil to instrumentality admittance successful IIT Bombay contempt a hold successful paying the admittance fee. It was the coaching institute who informed the household astir this instance.

Coincidentally, lawyers Amol Chitale and Pragya Baghel, who are representing Atul, besides represented Jaibir Singh.

When they went to the Supreme Court, Atul told a seat of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra connected Tuesday that it was successful his last effort that helium had cleared JEE Advanced, and unless the apical tribunal clears the decks for his admission, helium would suffer his seat.

The seat past made an reflection that gave the household immoderate hope. “Bearing successful caput the societal inheritance of the petitioner and the hardship which helium has undergone, we are of the presumption that this is simply a acceptable and due lawsuit for the issuance of announcement to research whether thing tin beryllium done for protecting the admittance of the petitioner,” said the three-judge seat connected September 24 portion listing the substance for September 30.

Atul, the youngest of 4 brothers, is not the archetypal from his household to marque it to IIT.