- By Shubham Bajpai
- Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:32 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
A 19-year-old student who cleared NEET twice but failed to get admission, himself filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court and got a favourable order after 10 minutes of argument in a surprising yet inspiring tale of dedication.
According to a report by NDTV, Atharva Chaturvedi is a Class 12 passout from Jabalpur, who cleared both engineering and medical entrance examinations but chose Biology to pursue his career in medical science.
He scored 530 marks in NEET but failed to get admission in a private college under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota, as the Madhya Pradesh government has not implemented a policy to extend reservations in the state.
Atharva's father, who himself is a lawyer, was cited in the report saying that the aspirant himself went to the Supreme Court website, downloaded the SLP format, studied it and drafted his own petition.
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He filed the SLP online after correcting registry objections on January 6. During the hearing, when the bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant was about to rise, he requested 10 more minutes.
The NDTV report states that the court heard his arguments and noted that he didn't get admission due to policy gaps.
The top court observed that admission can not be denied simply because the state had failed to notify EWS reservations in private colleges.
The apex court directed authorities to grant provisional admission to the petitioner for the 2025-26 session, subject to fee payment. According to the SC order, the state will have to allot a college to him within seven days.
Before the Supreme Court, Atharva also argued his own case in the Jabalpur High Court, where the judge reportedly told him, apparently impressed by his arguments, "You should become a lawyer, not a doctor. You're in the wrong field."