SC Orders IIT Dhanbad: The pupil’s father, a labourer, earns Rs 450 each day
Rs 17,500. That’s the payment {that a} Dalit pupil needed to pay to safe his admission into the distinguished IIT Dhanbad. Atul Kumar, from Uttar Pradesh, had 4 days to submit the payment. The pupil’s father, a each day wage labourer, tried all he may, however missed the payment deadline by a whisker. Not giving up, he then took the struggle to courts.
For three months, the daddy did the rounds of the SC/ST Commission, the Jharkhand and Madras High Courts. In the tip, when nothing labored, he approached the Supreme Court.
“We can not enable such a younger gifted boy to go away. He can’t be left in lurch. He went to Jharkhand Legal Services Authority. Then to Chennai Legal Services Authority after which he’s despatched to High Court. He is a Dalit boy being made to run from pillar to submit,” mentioned Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, ordering the IIT to confess the coed.
“We are of the view {that a} gifted pupil just like the petitioner who belongs to a marginalised group who did all to safe admission shouldn’t be unnoticed… 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 payment would have been paid,” the bench mentioned in its order.
The petitioner’s counsel mentioned the coed’s father earns Rs 450 each day. “The process of arranging 17,500 is a giant deal. He collected cash from villagers.”
“The solely factor that stopped him from paying was the shortcoming to pay and because the Supreme Court of India, we have to see that,” the Chief Justice mentioned.
The high court docket used its extraordinary powers underneath Article 142 of the Constitution in asking the IIT Dhanbad to confess Atul Kumar into its Electrical Engineering BTech course. Article 142 of the Constitution empowers the highest court docket to go any order within the curiosity of justice.
“All the perfect. Achha kariye (Do effectively),” the Chief Justice informed the 18-year-old pupil, who comes from a village in Muzaffarnagar district of UP.
A relieved Atul Kumar mentioned the “derailed practice is again on observe now”.
“I’ve been supplied with the seat. I’m very completely happy. The court docket mentioned my seat couldn’t be snatched away solely resulting from a monetary drawback. The practice that had derailed is again on observe now,” he mentioned with a smile. Atul mentioned he was hopeful of getting assist from the highest court docket.
Asked what lies forward, he replied, “I’ll work laborious and grow to be {an electrical} engineer from IIT-Dhanbad.”
What The Family Went Through
The mother and father of Atul Kumar didn’t deposit Rs 17,500 because the acceptance payment by 5 pm on June 24, the deadline for depositing the payment for blocking the seat.
The pupil’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 payment 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 first approached the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority which steered him to strategy the Madras High Court because it was IIT Madras that had performed the examination.
The excessive court docket, in flip, requested him to strategy the highest court docket.