KUMARI NIKITA Vs. CENTRALISED ADMISSION COORDINATION COMMITTEE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner had applied for admission into the Engineering Course and took the Pre-Engineering Test 2000, by filling up the prescibed Admission Form where she categorically described herself as a candidate belonging to the general category. For this reason she did not annex any certificate of reserved category which was to be submitted alongwith the admission form. This is clear on perusal of the copy of the admission form annexed as annexure-R/2 alongwith the counter affidavit of the respondent. THE petitioner thereafter appeared in the Pre-Engineering Test in the general category but failed to qualify for a seat in the general category. THEreafter she thought it convenient to claim a seat in the reserved category and obtained a certificate to that effect but her request for treating her as a candidate of the reserved category was refused by the authorities. This prompted the petitioner to file this writ petition simply stating that although she belongs to the reserved category of Other Backward Class she has been denied a seat in the said category.

(2.) A show cause notice was, therefore, issued to the respondents to assign reason for denying a seat to the petitioner in the reserved category, but after service of notice a counter affidavit was filed by the respondents with a copy of the admission form wherein it was clearly pointed out that there was no occasion for the authorities to treat her as a candidate belonging to the OBC, since she never claimed a seat in that category and that is manifest from perusal of the admission form itself wherein she clearly declared herself as a candidate of the general category. To make the position explicitly clear the column in the printed admission form was as follows:-