The Maharashtra State Board and Secondary Board has prohibited a 17-year-old SSC student from giving the SSC exam in March because of “insufficient” residence proof in Maharashtra. According to the board rules, residence proof of the student should be submitted. However, even when the student gave a ration card as proof, the University board rejected it and demanded he submit a domicile certificate, which is only made after a person has lived in Mumbai for 10 years.

The student has been identified as Mohommad Asif Khan, 17, who lives in Ghatkopar with his mother. Before 2019, Khan lived in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh with his parents Nafiz Ahmed and Fooljahan. His father suffers from kidney failure and is on dialysis, and due to this, the entire family shifted to Mumbai in 2018.