Hyderabad, May 3 -- The Telangana High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the admission process of IIM Mumbai for its 2026-28 MBA programme, holding that no violation of legal rights had been established.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka observed that the petitioner failed to demonstrate any arbitrariness or illegality in the selection process.

The court noted that the petitioner attempted to treat a competitive admission procedure as a matter of personal entitlement based on overall score, while overlooking mandatory sectional cut-offs.

Petitioner's claims

The petitioner, a 24-year-old from Gundla Pochampally near Hyderabad, had secured an overall percentile of 99.52 in CAT 2025. He approached the court...