INDERMEET KAUR, J.

1. Petitioner was enrolled in the 5 year course of B.A.LL.B in the year 2010 at the Amity Law School affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (respondent no.2 and respondent no.1 respectively). For his 6th semester examination out of 5 papers he could not appear in 2 papers i.e. the paper of Code of Civil Procedure and the paper of Code of Criminal Procedure; these two examinations were scheduled for 29.5.2013 and 31.5.2013. The petitioner could not appear in the said examinations as he was suffering from a highly infectious disease i.e. the disease of chicken pox. Petitioner wrote his examination in the aforenoted 2 papers in the year 2014. He had passed with flying colours. He graduated from the University with the highest score/Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) for his course i.e. 80.56.

2. On 27.02.2016 the petitioner was shocked to learn that petitioner was not being considered for the award of Gold Medal in spite of him having achieved highest score in his course. He visited the office of the Controller of Examinations. He was informed that his claim for the Gold Medal was rejected by the University for the reason that since he h