mumbai an 18yearold student has lost his seat for a fouryear electrical engineering course in the prestigious iitbombay after he inadvertently clicked on a wrong link which was meant to withdraw from the processthe student siddhant batra who hails from agra has now approached the supreme court seeking a direction to the institution to admit him after the iit said it cannot intervene at this stage as all the seats for the course were full and admission rules had to be followedit said batra could apply again next year for jee advancedthe bombay high court had initially directed the iit to consider batras petition after he approached it earlier this month as representation and pass appropriate ordersbatra who had secured all india rank air of 270 in jee advanced exams and secured admission claimed in his plea that he had clicked the wrong link which was meant to withdraw his seat batra intended to freeze the seat the plea saidon november 23 a division bench of chief justice dipankar datta and justice g s kulkarni dismissed batras petition noting that iit had considered his representation and passed its orderin his petition to the supreme court batra has sought a direction to the iit to consider his case on humanitarian grounds and requested creation of an additional seat to undo his lossbatra who lives with his grandparents following death of his parents in the plea said he had worked hard against all odds to crack iit jee examsthe petition filed through advocate pralhad paranjpe said batra had lost his father when he was a child and was brought up by his mother who passed away in 2018as per his plea batra while filling out the admission process online came upon a page with freeze option which he thought meant confirming the seat and the completion of his admission processon october 31 2020 when batra was surfing the iit portal to check for further updates he came upon a link which carried a declaration that read i would like to withdraw from the seat allocation process of josaa joint seat allocation authority the petition saidas per the plea batra inadvertently clicked on this link and stated iitbombay electrical engineering as reasons for withdrawal it added that batra never intended to withdraw his admissionin november 2020 when the final list of students was uploaded on the iit portal batras name was not includedthe iit in its order however said the withdrawal option was a conscious twostep processit said candidates who want to withdraw before the final round can do so and the seat acceptance fee gets refunded adding that once a candidate has withdrawn then his or her seat stands cancelled