Aggrieved by the alleged hacking of her daughter’s password for the GUJCET online admission process, which led to her daughter’s selection for an Amreli-based civil engineering college, a Bharuch-based woman has moved the Gujarat High Court to secure the girl’s admission at any college of her choice, now.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice Akil Kureshi has admitted the petition and sought reply of the assistant government pleader after taking instructions from the respondent, the Directorate of Technical Education.

The petitioner has been identified as Sadhna Dangarwala from Bharuch. Her daughter, Jhanvi, passed her Class XII examination in Science stream this year.

She subsequently cleared the GUJCET examination and was given a particular merit number. She then applied for online admission to engineering colleges across the state.

In the four mock rounds of the online admission process, she had selected engineering colleges in Bharuch, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Anand, Vasad, Nadiad, Vidyanagar, Valsad, Vadodara and Surat for the streams of Electronics, Instrument Control and Bio-Medical. She had reflected similar choices in the final round of the online admission process as well. But, when she tried to access her online account after the process was completed, she was unable to log in.

When she approached the concerned officials at the Directorate of Technical Education, they checked her account by changing the password and told her that she has been selected for admission to the Civil Engineering College in Amreli.

The petitioner has also contended that the respondent has orally confessed to them that somebody might have hacked Jhanvi’s password and changed her choice in the online form. Later, her mother approached the court with a prayer to grant her daughter admission at the Bharuch Engineering College for which she is eligible on merit.

... contd.