Mumbai: An 18-year-old orphan boy from Agra has lost his seat for a 4-year electrical engineering course in the prominent IIT Bombay after he inadvertently clicked on a wrong link which was meant to withdraw from the process. The student, Siddhant Batra from Agra, has now moved 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.
Siddhant Batra, who had secured All India Rank 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.
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.
In his petition to the Supreme Court, Batra has sought a direction to the IIT to consider his case on humanitarian grounds and requested the creation of an additional seat to undo his loss. Batra, who lives with his grandparents following the death of his parents, in the plea said he had worked hard against all odds to crack IIT JEE exams.
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