Chandigarh, April 17 -- The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-I has directed the Joint Admission Committee (JAC), Delhi, and Delhi Technological University (DTU) to refund Rs.95,000 to a student from Khudda Lahora after he was denied admission despite completing formalities, holding the authorities guilty of deficiency in service. The complaint was filed by Dipesh Kumar, a resident of Khudda Lahora, who had secured 94.77 percentile in JEE Main exam 2025 and applied for BTech/BArch counselling through JAC Delhi. He was allotted a seat in DTU during the first round of counselling and paid Rs.95,000 as admission fee after document verification. A provisional admission letter was subsequently issued to him. However, when Kumar reported for orientation on July 28, 2025, he was denied entry for not freezing his seat, a requirement he claimed was never communicated tohim. His admission was cancelled without prior notice and the fee was not refunded despite repeated requests. The commission noted that there was no clause in the provisional admission letter mandating the student to freeze the seat. It observed that once the fee had been accepted and a provisional admission letter issued, denial of admission on such grounds was unsustainable in law. ".Once the opposite parties (OPs) had already accepted the fees and issued a provisional admission letter. If any procedural step was inadvertently left incomplete by the student, it was the bounden duty of the OPs to inform the student before taking such a stringent action that could jeopardise the career of a bright student," the commission further noted while holding JAC Delhi and DTU jointly liable. The commission directed them to refund Rs.95,000 and also awarded Rs.10,000 as compensation for mental agony and litigation costs....