JUDGMENT :

Vipin Sanghi, J.

We have heard learned counsels and proceed to dispose of this writ petition.

2. The petitioners-Chinmaya Education Society and its Committee of Management have preferred the present writ petition to assail the order No. HNBGU/15/2023 dated 10.04.2023 issued by respondent no.2, i.e. the Registrar of the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Central University, Srinagar, Garhwal. The petitioners further seek a direction to uphold the penalty imposed by the Committee of Management and the petitioner-college upon respondent no.3.

3. The brief background facts are that the petitioner no.1-Society setup petitioner No.2-Chinmaya Degree College, Haridwar, in the year 1989. Earlier it was affiliated to Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. Consequent upon the formation of the State of Uttarakhand, the petitioner-College came to be affiliated to the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (for short ‘HNBGU’), Srinagar, Uttarakhand. In the year 2009, when the Central Universities Act, 2009 was enacted, HNB Garhwal University was declared as a Central University, and is currently governed by the provisions of the Central Universities Act, 2009. Petitioner no.1-Chinmaya Educat