IIM-Ahmedabad Challenges High Court Order on Student Expulsion

IIM-Ahmedabad appealed in the Gujarat High Court against an order by a single judge that quashed the expulsion of three students from the Doctoral Programme in Management (DPM). 

The students were asked to leave in the first year after the institute withdrew their candidature for failing promotion during the Coursework stage.

The institute relied on Clause 6.1.b of the programme manual, which requires exit when promotion fails from one stage to the subsequent stage.

The High Court questioned whether the manual allows students to be asked to leave within the first year and listed the appeal for 13 January 2026.

[Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad & Ors. v. Atul Kumar Kameshwar Prasad Gupta & Batch]