SHEKHAR SHARMA Vs. UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner with the prayer that the respondent be directed for revaluation of petitioner's answer sheet of the Penology subject without any fees and declare the result within three weeks.

(2.) Facts of the case are that the petitioner is the student of University of Rajasthan and enrolled in the course of the Post Graduate Diploma in Criminology (DCL). He appeared in the annual exams of the aforesaid course in six subjects, which were held from 16.05.2016 to 18.06.2016. The respondent-University published the result of the aforesaid exam on 21.07.2016, but the marks sheet was issued on 28.07.2016.

(3.) The petitioner, who is appearing in person, submitted that he was continuously sick from 16.07.2016 to 16.08.2016 due to seasonal diseases. The petitioner collected original marks sheet from the Department of Law, University of Rajasthan in the first week of August, 2016 and came to learn that he passed in five subjects out of 6, but failed in the subject of Penology wherein he scored 16 marks out of 100 marks. Dissatisfied with the result, the petitioner attempted to apply for revaluation on the University's website on 11.08.2016, but system of the respondent-University did not provide for the option of selecting the course Diploma in Criminology. In these circumstances, the petitioner submitted a written complaint to the Vice Chancellor of the University on 12.08.2016. However, the Deputy Registrar(Revaluation) vide letter dated 10.09.2016 replied to the petitioner that as per revaluation rules, application for revaluation could be made only within 15 days from the date of issuance of marks sheet and, therefore, application filed by the petitioner was liable to be rejected.