SAURABH SHARMA Vs. HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner by way of present writ petition has prayed for the following substantive reliefs:

(2.) IN nutshell, the case of the petitioner is that he failed to pass B.Sc. (Medical) 1st year examinations held in July, 2011, March, 2012, March, 2013 and thereafter in September, 2013. He came across a notification dated 9.9.2014 published by the respondent -University in the Hindi daily 'Amar Ujala' in its edition dated 10.9.2014, wherein it was mentioned that the University had allowed a golden chance to old students of 2011 -12 batch of undergraduate classes for appearing in the examination of compartment/failed papers. He accordingly applied by filling in the examination form and after paying the fee of Rs. 3,000/ -, admit card was issued. He undertook this examination held in September/October, 2014.

(3.) SINCE the petitioner had passed the examination, therefore, the University was called upon to file its reply. The only defence taken in the reply is that there was an error in the notification dated 9.9.2014 inasmuch as instead of 2012 -13 batch, a reference had been made to the batch of 2011 -12 and once this fact came to notice, then the University promptly issued a corrigendum to this effect, which was published in 'Amar Ujala' in its daily edition on 13.9.2014. Since the petitioner belonged to 2011 -12 batch he was therefore not entitled to this golden chance.