CHARANPAL SINGH BAGRI Vs. UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The W.P.(C) 6751/2019, W.P.(C) 6770/2019 & W.P.(C) 6774/2019, all raise the same substantial question of law i.e. challenging the validity of the changes made in the year 2019-20 in the eligibility criteria, which have been announced on 29.05.2019 vide the Bulletin of Information, Under-Graduate Admissions, 2019-20 of the University of Delhi, without adhering to Rule 14(1) of the Regulations made and notified on 06.05.2019 by the University Grants Commission vide notification F.No.14-4/2012 (CPP-II) issued by the University Grants Commission in exercise of powers conferred under Clause (g) of sub-section (1) of Section 26 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, in terms of which the mandatory publication of the prospectus, its contents and pricing 60 days prior to the date of commencement of the admission to any of the courses of the University of Delhi or its programme of study was not made, i.e. no such publication was made nor uploaded on the web site of the University of Delhi.

(2.) A further challenge made to the said change in the eligibility criteria of admissions to the under graduate courses to the University of Delhi by way of the Bulletin of Information putforth for admission to the under-graduate merit based courses as published on 29.05.2019 is to the effect that if the University wanted to introduce any amendment or alteration in its existing eligibility criteria, then a public notice of at least a year was required to be issued in advance, in as much as the sudden change in the eligibility criteria in the admission policy made one day before the date when the admission seekers were to seek their choice of subjects and colleges, is wholly arbitrary and unreasonable and ought to have been declared at the time of the commencement of the examination process of the qualifying exam at least and not later and that the altered eligibility criteria as mentioned in the under graduate courses Bulletin 2019-20 has put hundreds of students, who prepared for the admissions in the respective courses of their interest by following the then existing eligibility criteria for admission as per the University Bulletin of 2018-19, to huge disadvantage.

(3.) The changes that have been made by the University of Delhi vide a Bulletin for information in the eligibility criteria for under graduate courses (Academic year 2019-20) relate to the following:-