Dalit youth misses IIT seat by a whisker, Apex Court assures help

The Supreme Court has assured help to a poor Dalit youth, who lost his hard-earned seat in IIT Dhanbad after he narrowly missed the deadline to deposit Rs 17,500 as acceptance fee after clearing the prestigious exam in his last attempt.

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“We will help you as much as possible. But what were you doing for the last three months as the fee deposit deadline expired on June 24,” a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra told the counsel for 18-year-old Atul Kumar on Tuesday.

Kumar’s parents failed to deposit Rs 17,500 as the acceptance fee by June 24, the deadline for the requisite fee for locking the seat.