Because of the delay in producing the minority certificate, chennai: Madras high court has held that a candidate’s constitutional rights under the minority category to be considered for admission under the special category to educational courses could not be completely denied merely.
“While the modality of availing such benefits may differ, the petitioner’s application can be considered, subject to the availability of seats,” the court said. Such being the case, the court directed the authorities to permit the petitioner to participate in future rounds of counselling upon the production of the original linguistic minority certificate, in the event any seats are available under the linguistic minority category and the petitioner is otherwise eligible, the judge said. Since the committee neither granted the correction nor communicated a decision, the case has been filed. Disposing of the plea, the court passed the order.