DELHI, INDIA, Dec 29: In august, when Shakti Agarwal completed LLM with first division from Delhi University's (DU) Faculty of Law, the sky seemed to be the limit. Back then, his application for PhD in Law was also under consideration.

Battling blindness and osteoporosis, 32-year-old Agarwal felt he had accomplished quite a feat — enthusiastically looking forward to becoming the second ever blind candidate in the university's history to pursue a doctorate in law. “Having scored 64 per cent marks in LLM, I was assured I would get the admission. And I did. However, I did not get to stay in DU’s Gwyer Hall hostel, where I was housed since 2006, when I enrolled for LLB. I was the highest-scoring candidate to apply for the hostel, and was the only one who was pursuing his Ph D in Law,” said Agarwal. The hostel authorities, however, would not let him in.

“I had submitted the application form to the hostel authorities in August, when my Ph D was under consideration. After being selected for the doctorate course, the authorities were supposed to return my form so I could re-submit it after getting endorsement from the course guide. They did not return my form, and I had to submit another one. The final hostel admission list came out on December 2, but it did not have my name. When I submitted my objections to the list, I was threatened,” Agarwal told Newsline. He had now moved a petition in the Delhi High Court.

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