ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Thursday held that unaided minority institutions cannot admit students of their choice by adopting a mechanism of their own while ignoring any policy or regulation framed by the government.Dismissing a writ petition filed by Sankalp Institute of Education , a minority institution affiliated with the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Juatice Suneet Kumar gave this decision after hearing both sides.The institution’s contention was that the university is not allowing students admitted under minority quota to appear in examinations of B.Ed, though they were given admission after clearing the entrance examination conducted by the institution and there was nothing wrong in it as right of minority institutions to admit students cannot be regulated by the state or a university.The court disapproved the contentions of the petitioner and directed the institution to pay a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to each wrongly admitted student.The dispute pertains to the intake of students for the B.Ed course. A common entrance examination for B.Ed. course was conducted after which 21 students were allotted to the petitioner’s institution under the counseling/merit quota. The shortfall of 29 students was filled by the institution by separately conducting entrance examination.Later, the affiliating university refused to recognize the admissions of 29 students for not being in accordance with the state policy which is binding on the university. Accordingly, the students were not issued admit cards for taking the B.Ed. examination.