MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to allow a Juhu-based college to conduct its Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) course for the 2025-26 academic year. The court held that the institution's minor lapses should not put the students' future at stake In 2024, Ritambhara Vishva Vidyapeeth, an educational trust in suburban Juhu, that manages the Malini Kishor Sanghvi College of Commerce and Economics, asked the AICTE if they could initiate a BMS course. In May last year, the AICTE approved the program for the academic year of 2024-2025 and ordered the college to affiliate itself with the Board of Technical Education (BTE). In 2025, as the college wanted to continue offering the BMS course, it asked the AICTE to extend its approval. The Council responded that the college should apply through the National Single Window System (NSWS), an online portal under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The college had lost its login credentials and retrieved them only in August 2025. When they finally applied for the extension, the AICTE refused to let them offer the BMS course due to the delay in their application. The college then approached the court in September, stating that the future of nearly 20 students was at stake. Noting that the college had no bad faith a division bench of justices Ravindra Ghuge and Ashwin Bhobe asked the AICTE to accept the approval fees of Rs.3.35 lakh and grant the extension. The court noted the college's delay in complying with the formalities required, and directed it to pay a penalty of Rs.3.35 lakh....