Rs 17,500. That is the charge {that a} Dalit scholar needed to pay to safe his admission into the distinguished IIT Dhanbad. The Uttar Pradesh scholar had 4 days to submit the charge. The scholar’s father, a day by day wage labourer, tried all he might, however missed the charge deadline by a whisker. He then took the combat to courts.
For 3 months, the daddy did the rounds of the SC/ST Fee, the Jharkhand and Madras Excessive Courts. Ultimately, when nothing labored, he approached the Supreme Court docket.
“We can not enable such a younger proficient boy to go away. He can’t be left in lurch. He went to Jharkhand Authorized Providers Authority. Then to Chennai Authorized Providers Authority after which he’s despatched to Excessive Court docket. He’s a Dalit boy being made to run from pillar to put up,” stated Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, ordering the IIT to confess the coed.
“We’re of the view {that a} proficient scholar just like the petitioner who belongs to a marginalised group who did all to safe admission shouldn’t be omitted… we direct that candidate is granted admission to IIT Dhanbad and let him be in the identical batch to which he would have been granted admission if the charges would have been paid,” the bench stated in its order.
The highest court docket used its extraordinary powers underneath Article 142 of the Structure in asking the IIT Dhanbad to confess Atul Kumar into its Electrical Engineering BTech course. Article 142 of the Structure empowers the highest court docket to cross any order within the curiosity of justice.
“All the very best. Do effectively,” the Chief Justice informed the 18-year-old scholar, who comes from a village in Muzaffarnagar district of UP.
A relieved Atul stated the “derailed prepare is again on observe now”.
“I’ve been supplied with the seat. I’m very pleased. The court docket stated my seat couldn’t be snatched away solely on account of a monetary drawback. The prepare that had derailed is again on observe 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 laborious and turn out to be {an electrical} engineer from IIT-Dhanbad.”
What Dad and mom Went By means of
The dad and mom of Atul Kumar didn’t deposit Rs 17,500 because the acceptance charge by 5 pm on June 24, the deadline for depositing the charge for blocking the seat.
The scholar’s father managed to crowdsource the quantity by 4:45 pm on the final day. As Atul started importing his paperwork, the time for submission of charge was up. A dream crushed, the household regrouped and took the authorized route.
As the coed wrote the examination at a centre in Jharkhand, he approached the Jharkhand State Authorized Providers Authority which instructed him to strategy the Madras Excessive Court docket because it was IIT Madras that had carried out the examination.
The excessive court docket, in flip, requested him to strategy the highest court docket.