By IANS
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed Delhi University to allow a student, who was short of the required 20 years, to take an entrance test for admission into its post graduate course.
Justice B.D. Ahmed asked the university and the head of its Mathematics Department to let Dipika Jain, an undergraduate student at Maitreyi College of the university, take the June 23 entrance test.
In a petition, Jain, a resident of Gurgaon in neighbouring Haryana, submitted that the university had barred her from taking the admission test for a post-graduate course in Operational Mathematics on the ground that she would not fulfil the required criterion of being 20 years old on Oct 1, 2007.
She said the university, in fact, had admitted her to the college to pursue her graduation course in mathematics only on the high court's directions three years ago.
Opposing Jain's plea to take the entrance test, counsel for the university said she was falling short of one year and 20 days in age to qualify for admission to the post graduate course.
But her counsel submitted, "She is a bright student and stood second in her second year examination. She has scored 71.6 percent marks in aggregate and would score a high percentage of marks in the final."
Not allowing her to pursue her higher studies would be an infringement of her fundamental right, he said.