B SRIKANTH BABA Vs. DEPUTY REGISTRAR ADMISSIONS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Whether Ordinance 1/1996 is prospective in operation or retrospective, is the question that falls for consideration in this writ appeal.

(2.) The appellant was admitted to Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery in respondent No. 2 College. He joined the course during the academic year 1994-95. He completed three years by 1997-98. According to him, in 1996 he had been suffering from 'chronic gastritis', and has undergone treatment at Apple Hospital, Warangal. Again in 1998 while studying the third year he suffered severe stomach pain and was admitted in a Hospital at Hyderabad, and since the pain subsisted, he left to his native place, and was hospitalized in Rohini Hospital, Hanumakonda. The appellant appeared for the III year examination and successfully completed the same. He, however, could not attend the classes of IV year because he suffered stomach pain again and was admitted in Rohini Hospital, Hanumakonda.

(3.) On 12-7-1999, the appellant submitted an application to respondent No. 2 College for allowing him to join the IV year. The same was forwarded to respondent No. 1 University. Respondent No. 1 University, by order dated 1-9-99 rejected the application of the appellant on the ground that the absence of the appellant from the College was for more than one year.