Denying admission on technicality a violation of fundamental rights

The denial of admission solely on a technical ground to a candidate belonging to SC category would be tantamount to a violation of his fundamental rights DELHI HIGH COURT

- Shruti Kakkar

NEW DELHI: Denying admission to a Scheduled Caste (SC) candidate solely on technical grounds amounts to violation of their fundamental rights, the Delhi high court ruled, as it directed Delhi University (DU) to admit a student whose admission was rejected due to his failure to submit SC-category certificate within the stipulated time.

The direction, a bench of justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said, will ensure that procedural inefficiencies do not triumph at the expense of substantive justice.

"It is, therefore, seen that the denial of admission solely on a technical ground to a candidate belonging to SC category would be tantamount to a violation of his fundamental rights," the court said in a December 12 ruling, released on Monday.