Institute cancelled admission over non-submission of documents
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) on a plea moved by a student challenging the cancellation of his admission to its two-year postgraduate programme on technical grounds after he completed three-fourth of his course at the business school.
Justice Aniruddha P Mayee issued the notice, returnable on October 21, to the IIMA and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, from where the student had completed his five-year BTech plus MTech integrated course in 2021. Petitioner R Shri Vignesh’s failure to receive his degree certificates and mark sheets from the IIT Madras on time due to administrative and procedural delay led to the IIMA cancelling his admission in September 2023 after he had completed the fourth trimester of the institute’s flagship programme.
The petitioner said he joined the IIT Madras in 2016 to pursue its 5-year BTech plus MTech integrated course, and completed it in June 2021. Thereafter, he got admission in the IIMA in May 2022 after securing 98.66 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), he said.
While IIMA granted him extensions a couple of times, during which he completed four trimesters successfully, it invalidated his admission after his fourth trimester for non-submission of documents in September 2023.
The counsel said the petitioner tried to secure his documents from IIT Madras, and upon receiving them in July 2024, he approached the IIMA seeking readmission. The lawyer asserted that at no given point of time his client was at fault and he cannot be blamed for the delay in submitting the requisite documents to the top business school.