pune in an ad interim relief granted to three engineering graduates aspiring for postgraduate studies the bombay high court has ordered the state government to extend the cutoff date for admissions to the memtech management quota seats till saturday to enable these students secure their seats in a city college the students had challenged the dtes notification posted on its website to the effect that candidates with entrylevel qualifications that are not in consonance with the qualifications approved by the all india council for technical education aicte are not eligible for memtech admissions based on the dte notification the authorities had cancelled the admission of the three students lawyer vikram chavan who represented the savitribai phule pune university sppu in the matter told toi on thursday in their petition filed on august 5 the three students had argued that the reason for them being declared as not eligible was based on an erroneous understanding about their graduation degree qualification which they argued was very much valid the court had directed the respondents including the sppu to file their written say on the matter on august 27 the sppu filed an affidavit which clarified a candidate who has obtained bebtech degree in either one of the engineering branches like computer information technology it electronics electronics and telecommunication electrical instrumentation or computer science is eligible for memtech admission to either computer engineering computer science or it branches following the universitys affidavit the counsels appearing for the state government and the aicte told the high court bench of justices anoop v mohta and f m reis on september 3 that the government and the council had no objection to extending the cutoff date for admission to accommodate the three students the centralized process for all types of admissions to memtech courses got over on august 26 and the dte had asked the institutions to upload details of the admissions effected by them by september 2 however the students had brought to the courts notice that the jspm narhe technical campus in the city still has 15 management quota seats left to be filled the college management which was added as one of the respondents informed the court that it had no objection to giving admission to these students the court cited the fact that the petition of these students was pending since august 5 ie well before the cutoff date