New Delhi, July 3 -- Maharashtra's 19-year-old boy, Harsh Gupta, who hailed his Class 11 exams, retook the exams, cleared Class 12, and earned a place at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), reported Hindustan Times.

The report added that Harsh Gupta is the son of a small pani puri stall owner in Kalyan, which is one of the founding cities of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Gupta enrolled at a coaching institute in in Rajasthan's Kota and secured a seat at IIT Roorkee in Uttarakhand. Now he aims to enter the civil services.

The report added that Harsh Gupta scored 98.59 per cent in JEE-Mains and qualified for JEE-Advanced. This is engineering entrance exams for admission to colleges including IITs. But he missed to secure admissio...