Ashutosh Kumar, J.—A Batch of writ petitions of students of B.N. Mandal University (herein after referred to as University) had come up before a learned Single Judge of this Court, seeking a direction to the University to publish their results. Their results had been withheld for a variety of reasons; but primarily on the ground that they had not passed in the respective subjects within three consecutive examination.

2. The learned Single Judge examined Regulations 7 and 8 of the Regulation for Bachelor of Arts (General/Honors) Examination (three year degree course). The relevant Regulation Nos. 7 and 8 are being extracted here for ready reference and completeness.—

“7.1 There shall be University examination at the end of the first, the second and the third years of study to be known respectively as the B.A. (General/Honours) Part I Part II and Part III examination. No student shall be admitted to the B.A. (General) or B.A. (Honours) Part II class unless he has passed the B.A. (General) or B.A. (Honours) Part I examination and to the Part III class unless he has passed the Part II examination.

Provided that if a student fails in, or fails to appear at, not more than two subjects at the B.A. (General/Honours) Part I/II examination he shall be promoted to the next higher class but he shall not be eligible for admission to the B.A. (General) or B.A. (Honours) Part III class unless he has passed the B.A. (General) or B.A. (Honours) Part I examination in the subject/subjects concerned. Provided further that this facility for appearing in such carry over subject/subjects shall be available to a student at not more than three consecutive examinations.

7.2 If a student of the B.A. (Honours) course, after having passed the BA (Honours) Part 1 examination does not like to continue with the Honours course it shall be permissible for him to change over to the B. A. (General Course, in which case he shall be admitted to the B.A. (General) Part- II class and his honors and subsidiary subjects shall become his optional subjects and the marks secured in those subjects at the B.A. (Honours) examination shall be treated accordingly. Provided that the average of the marks secured in the Honours papers shall be treated as the marks secured in that optional subject.

8. Any registered student of the University may be admitted to the B.A. (General/Honours) Part 1, Part II or Part III examination if he produce a certificate from the Principal of a college of (a) good conduct (b) completion of regular course of study in the college by fulfillment of the prescribed requirement of attendance at lectures, tutorials and/or practical's and by satisfactory record of tutorial and/or practical and by satisfactory record of tutorial and/or practical work and (c) having passed the college test or any other equivalent examination, for making him eligible for the University examination.

Provided that a candidate who has failed at any of these examinations or having completed the regular course of study by fulfilling all the requirements is prevented from appearing at the examination for reasons accepted as adequate by the Principal of the college and who has not joined a college again, may appear as a non-collegiate student at and up to three immediately following examinations without attendance at lectures and tutorials if he produces a certificate from the Principal of the college where he completed his regular course of study stating that nothing is known to the Principal against his moral character, and if such a candidate has offered any subject or subjects for which a practical examination is prescribed, other than Music and Home Science, also a certificate of having taken again a course of practical work at the college in each such subject for at least, 16 periods, along with his application for admission to the examination.

Provided further that if a candidate for the B.A. (General/Honours) Part III examination has passed in other subjects/subjects and failed to