TRILOCHAN SINGH Vs. MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY ROHTAK

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Vide this judgment, a bunch of writ petitions are being disposed of. One of the questions argued is common in all the writ petitions which is formulated as below :- "Whether the students who had appeared in April in the Final E-amination of B.A. having failed or placed in compartment could seek admission to B.Ed. Correspondence Course and afterwards passing B.A. E-amination held in September (Supplementary E-amination.)" In two of the cases, facts are being narrated whereas in other cases facts are similar.

(2.) The common facts are given as under :- The M.D. University started B.Ed. Correspondence Course for the first time in the Session 1988-89. It is one year course, Last date for submitting application forms was 31st May, 1988 as given in the prospectus. The admission was open to candidates from all over the country who might otherwise fail to enter Colleges of Education for various reasons. Note at page-2 of the Prospectus issued by the University in this respect reads as under :-

(3.) In C.W.P. No. 11741 of 988 (Trilochan Singh v. M.D. University and another), the facts are briefly as under :- Trilochan Singh passed his B.A. E-amination in April, 1988. He applied for admission to the B.Ed. Correspondence Course vide application, Anne-ure- P.1. First instalment of fee was sent by bank draft vide letter, Anne-ure- P-2. Along with this letter; Result Card of B.A. (Final) E-amination was also sent. Anne-ure- P-3 is the Result-cunk Detailed Marks Card of the University. The University wrote a letter to Trilochan Singh, copy Anne-ure- P.4 Sintimating that the bank draft had not been received and fee should be deposited within twenty days; original Marks Sheet should also be sent; two copies of the Degree and Detailed Marks Certificate should also be sent. Migration Certificate was asked for. Anne-ure- P.5 is the reply to the above letter. It was stated that the original Degree had not been received from the University. However, Detailed Marks Card was attached with the application for reevaluation. The Punjab University was requested to supply the Migration Certificate. At this stage, it may be stated that though Trilochan Singh had passed B.A. E-amination, he had moved the Punjab University for re-evaluation and afterwards he was placed in Compartment in one subject. Trilochan Singh cleared the Compartment in the Supplementary E-amination held in September in the same year. Detailed Marks Sheet of the said e-amination is Anne-ure- P.7 Trilochan Singh had been getting regularly written instructions of the B.Ed. Correspondence Course from the respondent-University. On coming to know that the respondent-University was cancelling admission of several students who had not passed B.A. E-amination held in April, 1988 approached this Court with this writ petition for direction to the respondents not to cancel his admission in the B.Ed. Correspondence Course. In the written statement filed on behalf of the University, it was alleged that since the petitioner had submitted Detailed Marks Sheet of April E-amination which showed that he had passed B.A. E-amination, she was admitted to B.Ed. Correspondence Course. However, on re-evaluation for April, 1988 E-amination, his result was revised from Pass to Compartment in English and Economics as shown in Anne-ure- P.6. He cleared the same in the Supplementary E-amination. The duration of B.Ed. Correspondence Course is one year. The petitioner, therefore, was not eligible to continue his studies in the current Session as for all intents and purposes he could not be admitted as he had not passed B.A. E-amination held in April, 1988.