When original academic records are deposited with a Trial Court, any application for the rectification of mismatches between mark sheets and official gazettes must be filed before that Trial Court.

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Coram

Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Duta

Whether approved for reporting?¹Whether reporters of print and electronic media may be allowed to see the order? Yes.

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Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge

H Notice. Mr. Y.P.S.Dhaulta, learned Additional Advocate General, Mr. L.S. Mehta and Ms. Kanta Devi, learned counsel, appear and waive service of notice on behalf of the respective respondents.

2. In view of the grievances, documents appended alongwith the writ petition and nature of order being passed hereinafter, reply of the writ petition is not required to be called from the respondents. The matter has accor.dingly been heard.

3. The case set up by the petition er is that he successfully pursued the B. Pharmoacy course from respondent No. 4–University under a specific registration number. His name appeared in the student registration as well as in the admissionu record. The University has also issued detailed marks cards to the petitioner for all the semester examinations. The petitioner has also appended his detailed marks cards as Annexure P-1 (colly). It is further the case of the petitioner that though, in the green sheet, the marks secured by him in the 2nd semester have been reflected as 6.83, yet as per the Gazette, the petitioner has H been shown to re-appear in the 2nd semester. This, according to the petitioner, is a mismatch. The marksheet (OMC) of the 2nd semester shows the petitioner as pass. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that petitioner made a request to the respondent-University for rectifying the errors. The same was considered by the Committee duly constituted by the Government for verifying the record and supplying photocopies of relevant documents under the custody of SIT under the Chairmanship of Superintendent of Police, District Solan.

Petitioner was eventually supplied .the information vide office order dated 17.07.2025 (Annexure P- 4) by the respondent-University thereby sta ting that DMC has been issued from 1st to 8th semester,o except 2nd semester, where it shows re-appear as noticed above. Petitioner seeks rectification and for direction to the respondents for carrying out the correction in theu mismatch to correct the result as per DMC issued (Annexure P-1) and further direction to the respondents to issue him corrected record.

Learned counsel for respondents No.3 & 4 stated that corrections, if any, is to be done as per the Gazette only.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has jointly submitted that the issue involved in this writ petition is now H squarely covered by Priya Thakur Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh and others ²CWP No.2690 of 2024 decided on 22.04.2025, whereunder, in similar circumstances, petitioner therein was permitted to move appropriate application before the learned Trial Court where the mark sheet in original stood deposited and on receipt of such application, learned Trial Court was to pass appropriate orders. Relevant portion from the said decision reads as under:-

“5. In the light of the fact that the relevant correction, if ordered, has to be carried out in the originalH record, which is presently lying with the learned Trial Court, this Court is of the considered view tha t it would be in the interest of justice, in case, the peftitioner is granted permission to move an applicatioon to this effect before the learned Trial Court, which in the light of the contents of the application, may pass appro