The Court was dealing with a petition filed by a student Ashutosh Singh whose candidature was rejected by DU in the spot admission round held on December 31, 2021 for the two-year/three-year LLM programme.
The Court was told that Singh had acquired the LLB degree from DU and had then applied for the LLM course in the OBC category. As per the admission bulletin, the students applying under the OBC category were required to furnish an OBC Non-Creamy Layer Certificate for the financial year 2021-22.
The bulletin, however, contained a provision enabling students in the OBC category, who were not in possession of the said certificate for the financial year 2021-22, to apply for admission by uploading either the earlier certificate or the acknowledgement slip of having applied for issuance of same for 2021-22, subject to their producing the requisite OBC-NCL certificate for 2021-22 at the time of admission.
The petitioner said that since he was already in possession of the 2018 certificate issued to him by the State of Uttar Pradesh, he submitted his application and uploaded a copy of the said certificate. He then appeared for the entrance test but his name did not appear in the three allotment lists issued by the university.
On December 30, 2021, the University informed the students about a fourth allotment list for spot admissions. The petitioners’ appeared in the fourth list.
At around 8:59 pm on December 31, a communication was sent by the DU that all the shortlisted candidates should upload all the requisite documents between 9 am and 1 pm on the same day and a payment link for the payment of fees after the verification of documents would be generated by 10 pm on the same day.
As he uploaded all his documents, he received another communication stating that his admission was not approved as the OBC Non-Creamy Layer certificate submitted by him did not pertain to the required financial year. Though the petitioner requested the university to grant him more time, the request was rejected on the ground that no opportunity for furnishing the documents at a later stage in the spot admission round could be granted.
The Court was informed that even today two seats in the OBC category are lying vacant.
Source: Barandbench
