New Delhi: 19-year-old Nidhi Singla, who lost an opportunity this year to pursue engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology or any other good engineering institute due to what the IITs have passed off as a "mere inadvertent mistake" has now filed a lawsuit to join the premier institute even though she had cleared the entrance examination.
In April this year, Nidhi had appeared for the IIT entrance examination and had achieved a rank of 6,767. She had been allotted a seat at IIT-Roorkee and was also asked to deposit a fee of Rs.40,000.
However, when Singla tried to access the examination letter online, she had been shocked to find that the IIT had cancelled her admission. The IIT failed to present a reason for Nidhi's admission being cancelled.
Along with Nidhi, 50 more candidates had suffered the same fate when they had been sent confirmations of admission at one of the IITs but were later informed that their admissions had been cancelled.
The candidates were only told that they had been unable to clear the aptitude test and were declared passed only because of an alleged "mistake in data processing".
Nidhi's lawyer Vinay Kumar told the court that what was only a "mere inadvertent mistake" for the IITs had resulted in Nidhi losing out on opportunity to pursue engineering at not only the IITs but also other engineering institutes as well.
He further argued that once the IITs have allotted a seat to a candidate
New Delhi: 19-year-old Nidhi Singla, who lost an opportunity this year to pursue engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology or any other good engineering institute due to what the IITs have passed off as a "mere inadvertent mistake" has now filed a lawsuit to join the premier institute even though she had cleared the entrance examination.
In April this year, Nidhi had appeared for the IIT entrance examination and had achieved a rank of 6,767. She had been allotted a seat at IIT-Roorkee and was also asked to deposit a fee of Rs.40,000.
However, when Singla tried to access the examination letter online, she had been shocked to find that the IIT had cancelled her admission. The IIT failed to present a reason for Nidhi's admission being cancelled.
Along with Nidhi, 50 more candidates had suffered the same fate when they had been sent confirmations of admission at one of the IITs but were later informed that their admissions had been cancelled.
The candidates were only told that they had been unable to clear the aptitude test and were declared passed only because of an alleged "mistake in data processing".
Nidhi's lawyer Vinay Kumar told the court that what was only a "mere inadvertent mistake" for the IITs had resulted in Nidhi losing out on opportunity to pursue engineering at not only the IITs but also other engineering institutes as well.
He further argued that once the IITs have allotted a seat to a candidate