IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-39562-2025 Date of Decision : 08.01.2026 LAWRENCE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AND ANOTHER .....Petitioners VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP TIWARI Present : Mr. Mandeep Singh Sachdev, Sr. Advocate assisted by Mr. Rahul Shama, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Beant Singh Seemar, Advocate with Mr. Ranjodh Singh, Advocate, for respondents no.2 and 3.

KULDEEP TIWARI, J.(Oral)

1. Through the instant writ petition filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, a prayer is made for issuance of a direction upon the respondents to regularise and approve the direct admission of petitioner no.2, who is a student of Class-X, to register and enroll her as a bona fide candidate of petitioner no.1-School, and to include her name in the List of Candidates (LOC), and also to permit her to appear in the ensuring CBSE Class X Board Examinations which is scheduled to commence from 17.02.2026.

2. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners submits that Class X. Petitioner no.2 who has since lost her both parents, and is now residing with her material aunt in Jalandhar, who being unable to affo