JUDGMENT

1 Rule.

Rule made returnable forthwith.

By consent of counsel for the parties heard finally.

2 By this Petition, the Petitioner is seeking order and direction of this Court to the Respondents to permit Petitioner to pay the Seat Acceptance Fees and participate in the admission process and to admit the Petitioner to the seat allotted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay for Civil Engineering (4 years, Bachelor of Technology) or to any other seat that may be available in any of the Institutes of Technology preferably at Mumbai or Delhi, in any of the stream.

3 Petitioner is a student belonging to the scheduled caste category, who has passed the Joint Entrance Examination ( JEE) Advanced 2021 and has scored All India Rank (CRL) 25894 and Scheduled Caste (SC) Rank 864 and was allotted seat at the IIT, Bombay for Civil Engineering (4 years, Bachelor of Technology) (B.Tech. Course).

4 It is the case of the Petitioner that pursuant to the Business Rules XVIII Clause 40 for Joint Seat Allocation for the Academic Programs offered by IITs, NITs, IIEST, IIITs and other GFTIs for the academic year 2021-22 issued pursuant to a brochure dated 15/10/2021, Petitioner followed the