The student admits to have cancelled the admission by herself, thus the college should refund the amount paid as fees by her and considering her status as a student, says Bench
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday called out the bluff of a student who claimed that her admission to a Navi Mumbai Engineering College was cancelled by a third party, through hacking into the State Common Entrance Cell Test website.
A division bench of Justice SC Dharmadhikari and Justice Bharati Dangre, while allowing the student to withdraw her petition as dismissed, without granting any relief, said, "The student admits to have cancelled the admission by herself, thus the college should refund the amount paid as fees by her and considering her status as a student, the Navi Mumbai police should also close the prosecution initiated by her."
The petition was dismissed on basis of a secret report submitted to the court by the Kharghar police, giving details of the probe carried out by it. Advocate appearing for the State CET cell also informed the court that just two days after the student had gotten admission, she had cancelled the same by logging into the website. Since the system had received 17 more applications for the same seat, the other student was called upon to complete admission formalities by August 31.
The student, in her petition, claimed that in August she had got admission for the second year Information Technology course at the Bharati Vidhyapeet College of Engineering, under the ladies OBC quota. On August 16, she paid the fees and started attend the lectures. It was in October that the principal of the college verbally informed her about the cancellation of her admission.
She wrote complaints to the Directorate of Technical Education, seeking justice and also lodged complaints with the Navi Mumbai Cyber Crime Cell. Advocate Sagar Rane, appearing for the petitioner, argued, "This is a fit case to issue directions to the authorities to introduce robust safety measures in its system to make the online admission process immune from online hacking and other cyber frauds as the future of students is dependent on the admission process."
The bench accepted the secret report and accordingly refused to grant any relief. It, however, directed the police to close the case and destroy the CDR details obtained by it of the petitioner.
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- The petition of the student was dismissed on basis of a secret report submitted to the court by the Kharghar police, giving details of the probe carried out by it
- Advocate appearing for the State CET cell also informed the court that just two days after the student had gotten admission, she had cancelled the same by logging into the website
- The student later admitted to cancelling the admission by herself
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