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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

1.

LPA No. 765 of 2017 (O&M)

Ajay Kumar Thakur and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

2.

LPA No. 771 of 2017 (O&M)

Ganpati Institute of Hotel Management

...Appellant

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

3.

LPA No. 772 of 2017 (O&M)

Naveen Kumar and others

...Appellants

versus

The State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

4.

LPA No. 776 of 2017 (O&M)

Anish Garg and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

5.

LPA No. 779 of 2017 (O & M)

Bilal Ahmed Sheergojri and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

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6.

LPA No. 780 of 2017 (O&M)

Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology

and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

7.

LPA No. 789 of 2017 (O&M)

Kamini Dhiman and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Resopondents

8.

LPA No. 790 of 2017 (O&M)

Vivek Kumar and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

9.

LPA No. 812 of 2017 (O&M)

Priyanka Chauhan and others

...Appellants

versus

The State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

10.

LPA No. 890 of 2017 (O&M)

Suhail Ahmed Shah and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

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11.

LPA No. 1024 of 2017 (O&M)

Mohit Sandhu and others

...Appellants

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

12.

CWP No. 21816 of 2017 (O&M)

Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology

...Petitioners

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

13.

CWP No. 14278 of 2017 (O&M)

Puran Murti Educational Society

...Petitioner

versus

State of Haryana and others

...Respondents

14.

CWP No. 27592 of 2017 (O&M)

DATE OF DECISION : 30.10.2018

Chauhan Aakansksh Rajesh and others

...Petitioners

versus

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

... Respondents

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN MONGA

Present :

Mr. Girish Agnihotri, Senior Advocate with

Mr. Arvind Seth, Advocate;

Mr. R. K. Malik, Senior Advocate with

Mr. Sunil Hooda, Advocate;

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Mr. Rajiv Atma Ram, Senior Advocate with

Mr. Ranjit Singh, Advocate;

Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Advocate for

Mr. Saurabh Arora, Advocate;

Mr. N. S. Gill, Advocate for

Mr. Munish Gupta, Advocate;

Mr. Harsh Aggarwal, Advocate;

for the appellants/petitioners.

Mr. Samrath Sagar, Addl. AG, Haryana.

Mr. Rajesh K. Sheoran, Advocate and

Mr. P. K. Chugh, Advocate,

for HSBTE in LPA Nos.765,776,779,771, 789, 790

812,890 of 2017 and

CWP Nos. 21816 and 14278 of 2017.

Mr. Harkesh Manuja, Advocate,

for respondent No.6.

Mr. Anurag Goyal, Advocate and

Mr. Amit Rao, Advocate,

for MDU.

Mr. R. K. Ravesh, Advocate,

for respondent No.52 in LPA No.765 of 2017.

Mr. Amarjit Singh Virk, Advocate,

for Kurukshetra University.

MAHESH GROVER, J. (ORAL)

By this order, we propose to dispose of the above said

Letter Patent Appeals bearing Nos.765, 771, 772, 776, 779, 780,

789, 790, 812, 890 and 1024 of 2017 and also Civil Writ Petitions

bearing Nos.14278, 21816 and 27592 of 2017, as they involved

common question of facts and law.

Some of the writ petitions/letter patent appeals have

been filed by the institutes, while the others are by the students,

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whose careers are affected on account of the action of the

respondents.

For the purpose of convenience, we draw the fact