The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday, 27 September, refused to entertain a petition filed by a B.Tech student of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, who could not complete his engineering programme for the last nine years.
The court suggested that the petitioner should consider an alternate career.
"When you could not pass an engineering degree in nine years how can you clear 17 compartments in one attempt. It is better to choose some other career, but not engineering," the court reportedly observed.
The petitioner is currently battling 17 compartment papers, and requested the court to grant him one more attempt to clear all his backlog, reported India Today.
According to news reports, the student joined the Kurukshetra institute in 2009, but could not complete his course in four years. He was reportedly given another four years to clear the papers he had failed in.
The high court reportedly added that it had no “sympathies” for people like him, who wasted the country’s resources. It observed that the expenses incurred by the institution over the period was more than the fees he had paid.
(With inputs from India Today)
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