Atul Kumar was all smiles after he walked out of Supreme Court docket at this time
New Delhi:
Atul Kumar was all smiles as he walked out of the Supreme Court docket this afternoon. A short time again, a bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud used its extraordinary powers to ask IIT Dhanbad to confess Atul Kumar to its electrical engineering course.
The 18-year-old Dalit youth from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar cracked the troublesome entrance examination to the nation’s most coveted engineering course this yr. He’s from a household under poverty line and his father, a daily-wage labourer, couldn’t prepare the Rs 17,500 admission payment in time to dam the seat.
Atul then ran from pillar to publish to avoid wasting the hard-earned seat. He approached the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Castes, however the panel stated it can’t assist. Atul additionally went to the Jharkhand State Authorized Providers Authority as a result of he had taken the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) at a centre in Jharkhand. The authorized providers physique instructed he strategy the Madras Excessive Court docket as a result of IIT Madras had carried out JEE this time. The excessive court docket then requested him to strategy the Supreme Court docket the place he acquired reduction.
“I’ve been supplied with the seat. I’m very joyful. The court docket stated my seat couldn’t be snatched away solely as a consequence of a monetary downside. The practice that had derailed is again on monitor now,” he stated with a smile. Atul stated he was hopeful of getting assist from the highest court docket. Requested what lies forward, he replied, “I’ll work onerous and turn out to be {an electrical} engineer from IIT-Dhanbad.”
Earlier, the Chief Justice-led bench stated it can’t enable such a expertise to be wasted. “He went to Jharkhand Authorized Providers Authority. Then he’s (despatched) to Chennai authorized providers after which to the excessive court docket. He’s a Dalit boy, he’s being made to run from pillar to publish,” the bench stated.
The petitioner’s counsel stated Atul’s father earns Rs 450 each day. “The duty of arranging 17,500 is a giant deal. He collected cash from villagers.”
“The one factor that stopped him from paying was the lack to pay and because the Supreme Court docket of India, we have to see that,” the Chief Justice stated.
The court docket used its extraordinary powers below Article 142 to ask IIT Dhanbad to grant admission to Atul in the identical batch. “No present pupil be disturbed and let a supernumerary seat be created for the candidate,” the bench stated. The Chief Justice wished Atul: “All one of the best. achha kariye!”