A bench comprising Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela reviewed appeals from both the college and the student regarding a single judge’s earlier decision that denied the student admission.
New Delhi: Today(Oct 28): The Delhi High Court has allowed a minority category student to attend classes amid a dispute over seat allocation between St. Stephen’s College and Delhi University (DU).
A bench comprising Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela reviewed appeals from both the college and the student regarding a single judge’s earlier decision that denied the student admission.
BRIEF FACTS
While permitting the student to attend classes, the court instructed that “no further allocation of minority quota seats be made for the time being”.
The bench noted that the single judge had identified 18 students eligible for admission to St. Stephen’s College and recognized that one seat remained vacant in the combination chosen by the appellant student.
The court stated, “Let any such vacant seats go waste,” emphasizing that the college must not allocate more seats in the minority category until further notice.
The case after October 14 judgment by the single judge, which affirmed that 18 out of 19 students were entitled to admission based on merit.
In the appeal, the 19th student argued that a seat became available when another student declined it, leading him to seek admission in the Bachelor of Arts course.
DU opposed the appeals, contending that the college should not be allowed to alter its seat allocation in this manner. DU claimed that the college had assigned seats inconsistently with the established seat matrix, while the college insisted that the admission of the 19 students complied with its approved intake limits.
