The Supreme Court on Wednesday came to the relief of an Eighteen-year-old student who lost his admission to IIT-Bombay after he inadvertently clicked a wrong link during the online admission process.

A bench of Justices S K Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy passed an interim order directing IIT Bombay to grant provisional admission to Siddhant Batra who had secured an all-India rank of 270 in JEE.

An SC bench said: "List in the reopening miscellaneous week after the winter recess. In the meantime, by interim order, we direct that the petitioner should be permitted to join the respondent-institution and pursue his course subject to fulfillment of all other formalities." Batra sought direction to IIT to consider his case on humanitarian grounds. He said he lives with his grandparents following the death of his parents, and submitted that he had worked hard to clear the IIT-JEE exam.

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