India, May 16 -- The Bombay High Court has come to the rescue of a city resident who was denied an electrical engineering degree despite successfully completing the course from an institute in Ratnagiri because of the recent scrapping of a 5% quota for 51 Muslim communities.

A division bench of justices RI Chagla and Advait Sethna has ordered the University of Mumbai (MU) and the Finolex Academy of Management and Technology in Ratnagiri, where petitioner Farukh Ilahi Sayyad studied, to release his final semester result and leaving certificate, and also issue him a degree.

The case pertains to the Maharashtra government's decision in 2014 to introduce 5% reservation in education and public employment for 51 backward Muslim communities vi...