Bombay high court allows over 750 engineering students with backlog to sit for exams

Mumbai: Bombay High Court on Monday granted relief to over 750 students, who claimed to have cleared their first- or second-year engineering college examinations and allowed them to appear for exams for the third and fourth year, which starts on May 20.

The vacation bench of Justices Gautam Ankhad and Sandesh Patil permitted them to appear for the examinations to avoid any prejudice since similar permission was granted to some other similarly placed students as well. The HC heard their lawyer Pooja Thorat, who relied on a previous April order of interim relief to other students, who on the basis of a ‘carry on’ system took provisional admission with backlogs but later cleared them. She also cited a Govt Resolution dated Feb 10, 2025, and the ‘Carry on’ Circular issued by Savitribai Phule University at Pune.

Uday Warunjikar, counsel for a student who was last year denied interim relief, opposed their pleas, saying they ought to file independent petition and not interim application in a pending petition. The students’ case was they had attended lectures based on provisional admissions and cleared backlogs. A larger issue concerning the validity of the “Carry On” system is pending before the HC.