IIT-Roorkee Allows Expelled Students To Sit For Re-Examination

Following a court order, IIT Roorkee today allowed its expelled students to appear for a re-examination.

Students at the IIT Roorkee campus. (Photo: YouTube/Focus News)

The IIT-Roorkee students who were recently expelled for under-performance by the premier institute, were today allowed to appear in a re-examination, following a court order.

The expelled students who turned up at the institute to appear in the re-examination were allowed to take the test.

— Pramod Agarwal, Dean (Academic) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee

However, Agarwal could not specify the number of such students.

In a reprieve to the students, Uttarakhand High Court had allowed them to appear in a re-examination scheduled to be held at the institute from today, if they wanted, and also directed the administration of the institute to file a counter-affidavit on a petition challenging its decision to expel them.