Confess Dalit trainee who stopped working to organize charge in time: SC to IIT

NEW DELHI: Invoking its amazing power under Article 142 of the Constitution to do total justice, Supreme Court on Monday pertained to the rescue of a Dalit youth who might not get admission in IIT-Dhanbad since he might not pay the admission charge of Rs 17,500 on time to protect his seat. Observing that “it can not enable such a gifted young boy to disappear” and miss out on the chance after breaking the difficult entryway examination, a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra directed that the petitioner be confessed to the electrical engineering course. It directed IIT-Dhanbad to produce an extra seat to accommodate him without interrupting other trainees who have actually been confessed. “We are agreeably of the view that a skilled trainee like the petitioner need to not be left in the stumble. The power of the court under Article 142 is to attend to such circumstances,” the SC stated in its order and directed that the petitioner be confessed in the very same batch in which he would have been taken in and be provided all advantages such as hostel admission. Eighteen years of age Atul Kumar had actually moved the SC as the last hope after he missed out on the due date to pay the requisite charge. He had actually previously approached National Commission for Scheduled Ca
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