JUDGMENT

Petitioners are students enrolled in the 3 year Unitary LL.B and 5 year LL.B course at the 4^th respondent Institution, which is a respondent University. Some of the petitioners were initially deprived of an opportunity to write their examinations on account of shortage in attendance. While so, petitioners 4 to 6 obtained condonation for their attendance shortage from the University itself, and respondents 7 and 9 was found to have sufficient attendance to write the examination. Petitioners 1 to 3 were also identified as having attendance within the condonable limits. Hence, after the petitioners approached this Court through this writ petition, an interim direction was issued on 09.10.2025, directing respondents 3 and 4 to accept the examination fees of the petitioners provisionally, subject to further orders in this writ petition.

2. Petitioners contend that the college had conducted only 71 working days in total for the second semester for both courses. Therefore, th