PARADISE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEARNED counsel for the State submits that he does not have the brief and seeks adjournment.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner, however, states that if further time is granted to the respondents, the very purpose of filing the writ petition shall become infructuous, as counseling is already going on w.e.f. 19.06.2014 and is to end on 27.06.2014. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that as per the recognition order (Annexure P -6), the petitioner has been granted recognition officially by way of publication in the gazette of India and the same is under Section 14(1) of the National Council for Teachers' Education Act (Act for short). The former affiliation is being withheld by the respondents for no valid reason. He has referred to the decision of Full Bench of Kerala High Court in case reported as Vikram Sarabhai Educational Trust and B. Ed. College, Keipamangalam v. University of Calicut and another, : 2009 (Sup.) BCR 468 wherein it has been held that if recognition is given to a college under Section 14 of the Act on the finding that the college is having all the necessary infrastructure facilities, the university or concerned authority has no right to decline affiliation.

(3.) WITH the state of affairs, as they stand, it appears that former affiliation has not been issued by the respondents for no valid reason. It is, therefore, ordered that the petitioner shall be permitted to participate in the counseling which shall be provisional and subject to the outcome of this writ petition.