Manmohan, J.

1. Present writ petition has been filed seeking promotion of the petitioner to second semester of LL.B. first year course and also for a declaration that respondent-University's action of not allowing the petitioner to sit in the exams of those subjects in which he had more than 70% attendance in first semester was illegal.

2. Admittedly, in the first semester, petitioner had the following attendance in his 5 subjects:-

3. Petitioner in this writ petition claims that he is entitled to two attendances in each subject on account of attending a moot court as also for remission of some lectures on the ground that he was admitted late.

4. According to Mr. R.K. Saini, learned counsel for petitioner, if provision is made for the aforesaid relaxations then the petitioner’s attendance in two subjects would exceed 70% and his overall attendance would be 65%.

5. He stated that in accordance with Rule 12 of the Bar Council of India's Rules of Legal Education, 2008 (for short ‘Rules, 2008’) a student whose minimum attendance was 70% in a particular subject, was entitled to appear in the examination of the said subject.

6. Mr. Saini pointed out that on 25th June, 2010 t