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Wrong Click, Student loses Prestigious IIT Bombay Seat

by TLN Team December 1, 2020
written by TLN Team December 1, 2020
Wrong Click, Student loses Prestigious IIT Bombay Seat

A student named Siddhant Batra has lost his seat for a four-year electrical engineering course in the prestigious IIT Bombay after he “inadvertently” clicked on a “wrong” option which was meant to withdraw from the process.Siddhant Batra who hails from Agra has now approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the institution to admit him after the IIT said it cannot intervene at this stage as all the seats for the course were full and admission rules had to be followed. It said Batra could apply again next year for JEE (Advanced).The Bombay High Court had initially directed the IIT to consider Batra’s petition, after he approached it earlier this month, as representation and pass appropriate orders.Batra, who had secured All India Rank (AIR) of 270 in JEE Advanced exams and secured admission, claimed in his plea that he had clicked the wrong link which was meant to withdraw his seat. Batra intended to freeze the seat, the plea said.

On November 23, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni dismissed Batra’s petition noting that IIT had considered his representation and passed its order. In his petition to the Supreme Court, Batra has sought a direction to the IIT to consider his case on humanitarian grounds, and requested 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.

The petition, filed through advocate Pralhad Paranjpe, said Batra had lost his father when he was a child and 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 and the completion of his admission process. As per the plea, Batra inadvertently clicked on this link and stated ‘IIT Bombay, Electrical Engineering’ as reasons for withdrawal. It added that Batra never intended to withdraw his admission. In November 2020, when the final list of students was uploaded on the IIT portal, Batra’s name was not included. The IIT, in its order, however, said the withdrawal option was a “conscious” two-step process.

It said candidates who want to withdraw before the final round can do so and the ‘seat acceptance fee’ gets refunded, adding that once a candidate has withdrawn then his or her seat stands cancelled.

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