JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner, a young girl-student of 21 years of age, has knocked at the doors of this Court being aggrieved by extreme oppressive action of a professional body-The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (for short, ‘Institute’), which enjoys a long earned reputation of setting high standards of professional excellence, discipline and meeting the timeline especially when it comes to holding of examinations and declaring results.

2. Although the chronological facts are handful but their culmination has been dreadful and concussion thereof could have been doomful.

3. Aspiring to become a Chartered Accountant, the petitioner cleared her CA Foundation Examination in the year 2018 in the very first attempt. Consequently, she became eligible to appear in CA Intermediate Examination scheduled for May, 2020.

4. On account of unprecedented situation of spread of Covid-19 and imposition of lock-down, the exams due in May, 2020 were cancelled.

5. Thereafter, a new schedule for CA Examinations came to be published according to which the exams were re-scheduled to be conducted between November 21st and December 14th, 2020.

6. Owing to the said rescheduling, the respondent-Instit