SHASHI PARBHA Vs. PUNJAB UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioners impugn the action of the respondent University in not granting admission to them to the Master of Lihrary Science Course commenced with effect from l6th Aug. 1983. The facts pleaded by them are as follows.

(2.) They passed the Bachelor of Library Science Course from this University, i.e., Punjab University, Chandigarh, respectively securing 66.87%, 66.70% and 63.75% marks. After giving the weightage of marks admissible to the students who had graduated from this University, their merit as per the admission of the University authorities, comes to 74.12%, 73.37% and 73.5% respectively. The University vide its advertisement dt. June 17, 1983, published in the Tribune (Annexure P. 1) invited applications for admission to seventeen seats in the above noted course, by July 6, 1983. It was mentioned in this advertisement that certain number of seats had been reserved in favour of various categories of candidates, the details of which are as follows:--

(3.) The admitted case further is that out of the seven seats meant for the staff of the University libraries, only five candidates joined and thus two more seats were put in the general pool. Since one of the candidates, Vinod Kumar, admitted on merit, failed to deposit the fee and to join the course, that seat was also made available to the general category candidate. Thus in all five candidates up to No. 6 of the open merit list have been admitted to the course.