There was a village boy once who could not pay Rs 14 as school fees and could do only with others help. Now that person is standing before you as a senior Advocate. That is the situation in our country… Similar is the case I appear for today…. Senior advt Nagamuthu “

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[19/11, 12:43] Sekarreporter: Sr Advocate S Nagamuthu and former Judge of Madras HC begins a submission before CJI BR Gavai led bench:

“There was a village boy once who could not pay Rs 14 as school fees and could do only with others help. Now that person is standing before you as a senior Advocate. That is the situation in our country… Similar is the case I appear for today….”
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[19/11, 13:23] Sekarreporter: Sr. Advocate S. Nagamuthu appeared for the student who was denied admission for MBBS course due to non-payment of fee on time. A learned single of the Madras HC allowed the case of the student directing her to make the payment to join the course after finding that the last date was a bank holiday and the parents were poor and uneducated and unaware of the banking transactions and could not make the payment on time. The judge also found the financial difficulties faced by the parents in mobilising the fee amount and the mother borrowing jewels and pledging it for her daughter’s education.

However, the next day a Division Bench of the Madras HC reversed the order of the learned single judge.

On appeal by the student the Supreme Court issued notice to the respondent Selection Committee and adjourned it by a week for hearing after the counsel requested a short notice in view of the urgency in the matter.