New Delhi, Nov 21 (PTI) The Delhi High Court todaydismissed a petition of seven students of a Delhi Universitycollege seeking review of an order upholding their debarmentfrom appearing in the examination due to shortage ofattendance.
The bench said the delay on the part of college inpublishing the attendance record was mere three days and itwas not the case of the students that these records wereinaccurately mentioned in the college records.
A division bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and SunilGaur dismissed the review petition of the students of DeenDayal Upadhyaya College who were not allowed to take thefourth semester examination of B.Com (Hons) course on May 9.
The students had initially got a favourable order fromsingle judge which was set aside by the division bench onSeptember 12.
The students had approached the Supreme Court but wereallowed to withdraw the appeals after hearing. They had thenmoved the high court with their review petition.
While the classes had ended on April 27 and if thecollege was to legitimately exclude any student, not less thanfive clear days' notice was necessary in this regard.
The college had put out the list of students with shortattendance on May 5 on its website, with a delay of three daysand the students claimed they came to know that they wereineligible only a day before the examination.
To this, the bench said, "The lapse on the part of thecollege is only of three days. Were the cases of the reviewpetitioners in the present case short of attendancemarginally, the omission of the kind they highlight could havebeen of some significance. However, their attendance record –which has been reproduced in the main body of the judgment ofthe division bench dated September 12, show that there wassignificant shortage in the case of each of them." PTI SKV PPSHMPARC.
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