IIT JEE : OBC Student Who Mistakenly Clicked Wrong Course Moves Supreme Court For Allocation Of Preferred Choice

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by an IIT JEE aspirant who secured AIR 1008 in OBC category seeking directions to Centre, Ministry of Education and Organising Chairman, JEE Advanced, Kharagpur to allocate him the seat for academic programme ie Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati and rectify the unintentional mistake committed by the him.

It has been argued that the student at the time of filing his choices for Institute and Academic Programme before the Joint Seat Allocation Authority, 2021, he unfortunately selected Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in place of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati.

The petitioner averred that the mistake was supposed to have been caused because the time for clicking to his choice was about to get over and the time for clicking one of his choices was at 5:00 PM and he clicked for his choice at 4:59 PM on October 25 pursuant to which the system was locked.

Reliance has been placed on the Top Court's judgement in Siddharth Batra v. The Director, IIT Bombay & Ors SLP (Civil) No 14358/2020 in which the Court had dealt with the matter where the student who was not selected due to wrong clicking.

The petition has been drafted by Advocate RD Rathore and filed by Advocate Varinder Kumar Sharma.

Case Title: Lakshya Verma v. Union of India and Another| WP (Civil) 1317/2021