P. UMA Vs. DELHI UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner before this Court applied for admission to the B.Ed. Course, 2013 in the Department of Education of Delhi University. As per the eligibility conditions stipulated by the University, the candidates who had appeared for the final year examination of any of the qualifying examinations, were eligible for admission to the said Course on a provisional basis, subject to their submitting the mark-sheet of the said examination within one week from the date of admission, but not later than 31.7.2013.

(2.) THE petitioner, who had appeared in final year examination for B.A. Programme of Delhi University, got his result only on 31.7.2013. The said result, according to the petitioner, was uploaded on the website of the Delhi University at 6 pm on that date. The petitioner, however, could not submit the mark sheet of the said examination to the university on 31.7.2013. When she visited the university on 1.8.2013 alongwith the marksheet, she was informed that the provisional admission granted to her has already been cancelled. It would be pertinent to note here that the mark sheet was downloaded by the petitioner from the website of the university on 1.8.2013. Being aggrieved from the cancellation of her admission, the petitioner is before this court seeking the following reliefs:

(3.) IN my view, since the university had stipulated 31.7.2013 as the last date for submission of the mark-sheets of the qualifying examination, it ought to have declared the result of the qualifying examination, at least a few days before the aforesaid last date for submission of the mark-sheets of the qualifying examination. To declare the result of the qualifying examination and expect the students to submit the mark-sheet, after downloading it from the website of the university on the same very day, in my view, was an unreasonable condition imposed by the university. In fact, before fixing the last date for submission of the mark-sheet of the qualifying examination, the university ought to have ensured that the result of all the qualifying examination shall be declared by it prior to 31.7.2013 so that the candidates who are granted admission on provisional basis have no difficulty in submitting their mark-sheet by the stipulated date.