ASHUTOSH KUMAR, NANI TAGIA, PARTHA SARTHY
Pushpa Kumari – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent
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 th
The court emphasized that the proposition that the University is precluded from holding back a result of a candidate if allowed to sit and participate in the examination is not of universal applicati....
Educational institutions cannot withhold results based on procedural errors after allowing students to take examinations, emphasizing the need for adherence to statutory obligations.
The absence of specific rules/regulations/guidelines regarding clearing remaining papers in subsequent annual examinations and the petitioner's legitimate expectation to clear only the remaining pape....
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