Allahabad High Court Gives Rs 15,000 For Allotment Of Dalit Student’s IIT Seat – Education News
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad HC on Monday gave Rs 15,000 for a Dalit student, who approached it after being unable to deposit the amount for allotment of a seat at IIT(BHU) after cracking the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advance.
It further directed the Joint Seat Allocation Authority and IIT (BHU) to admit the student in Mathematics and Computing course (Bachelor and Master of Technology, dual degree course). The bench also instructed the BHU to create a supernumerary seat for the Dalit student, if there is no seat vacant now.
The student was asked to prepare a report at BHU within three days, along with the necessary documents for admission. A bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh passed the order on a petition moved by student Sanskriti Ranjan in person.
She requested the bench that the Joint Seat Allocation Authority and IIT (BHU) be directed to grant her some more time to deposit the fee, which is a sum of Rs 15,000. It was pleaded in the petition that she belonged to Scheduled Caste category. She scored 95.6 per cent marks in Class 10 and 94 per cent in class 12. Ranjan secured 92.77 percentile in JEE Mains Examination and bagged a rank of 2,062 as an SC candidate.
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