The Delhi high court on Friday came to the rescue of a student who qualified the joint entrance examination (JEE) of IIT but was denied admission due to a technical error while applying online for the counselling.

Justice M L Mehta has issued notice to IIT Delhi asking it to come up with a way to accommodate eighteen-year-old Jitendra Kumar Bansal, who secured 748th rank in the OBC merit list in this year’s JEE examination. The student, even after qualifying the entrance, couldn’t register himself for the counselling, which he alleged was because of failure of the IIT’s electronic server. After his repeated requests to IIT Delhi director and chairman to allow him admission failed to generate any favorable and concrete response, he knocked the court’s door.

Justice Mehta observed, “Since the candidate has qualified the examination, IIT should find out a way to accommodate him. Imagine the hardship he will face if his plea is not considered.”

“The boy who has made it to this level should not be denied the right to appear in the counseling since it was only a technical error,” he noted. Since the last counselling for admission is on July 10 ,the court has asked   IIT Delhi to file it’s reply on July 4. “You find out a way or the court will issue an appropriate order”, the bench said.

Later, the petioner student Jitendra Bansal, whose father runs a dairy in Delhi's Yamuna Vihar area told Governance Now that he wants to study civil engineering from IIT.