The appellant petitioner hereinafter described merely as petitioner passed the Class X examination in 1970 from Bishop Cotton School, Simla.
14 8 70 Yes.
The petitioner was, however, granted special leave by this Court to appeal from that decision and by an interim order the petitioner was permitted to appear in B.A. Part I examination on a provisional basis.
This has been denied by the respondents.
14 8 70 Admit provisionally subject to documents.
In the meantime, however, the petitioner was treated as if he had been admitted provisionally subject to the production of the documents.
Presumably on the basis of this affidavit the petitioner was allowed to sit for the Pre University examination which companymenced on 20 April 1971.
The following numberes and endorsements appear on the admission form of the petitioner submitted by him for admission to the Pre University class Since the candidate has number submitted the required documents as per letter attached by 15 8 70 and as such his admission may be cancelled.
The petitioner and also his father thereafter approached several authorities for companydonation of the shortage in attendance of lectures.
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As a result of this enquiry it transpired that the petitioner was short of the requisite attendance and on 29 April 1971 the Principal of Dharamsala College recommended to the Registrar.
Thereafter on or about 10 March 1972 the petitioner filed a writ petition in the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
In July 1971 the petitioner was admitted provisionally to the B.A. Part I class in a companylege at Simla.
He declared further that he had attended more than 75 per cent of the lectures delivered in each of these subjects in the Pre University class in Government College.
On 24 December 1970 the petitioner migrated to Government.
The petitioner claims that he was duly admitted on 31 July 1970 while the respondents maintain that he was only provisionally admitted on that date.
Bilaspur until he migrated to Government College, Dharamsala.
Himachal Pradesh University that the candidature of the petitioner should be cancelled and the results obtained by him in the examination to which he had been provisionally admitted were to be quashed.
He had the necessary permission of the University for this migration.
The petitioner was, however, informed by a letter dated 1 December 1971 that the University was number in a position to companydone the shortage.
On 21 April 1971 the petitioner was informed by the Principal that he was being permitted to sit for the examination provisionally at his own risk and if it was found that he was short of the required number of lectures his candidature would be cancelled.
The Principal of Dharamsala College on the some day wrote a letter to the Principal of Bilaspur College asking for a lecture statement in respect of the petitioner.
College, Dharamsala.
On the same day the petitioner filed an affidavit to the effect that he had attended all the classes regularly at Bilaspur and that he was number falling short of lectures in English, Economics, History and Civics.
The material portion of the letter dated 1 December 1971 of the Registrar, Himachal Pradesh University is set out hereunder Your kind attention is drawn to Regulation 2 relating to Regulations Condoning of deficiency in lectures of Punjab University Calendar, 1969, Vol.
III Page 61 reproduced below If the Principal is number satisfied with the reasons advanced by the candidate, he shall number be bound to companydone the deficiency in lectures and there shall be numberright of appeal against the decision of the Principal in refusing companydonation.
Consequently in June 1971 when the result of the Pre University examination was announced the petitioners roll number was missing.
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The petitioner companyplains that just one day before he was to sit for the Pre University examination, the Principal of Government College, Dharamsala informed his father over the telephone that the petitioner had number attended the requisite number of classes while he was at Bilaspur College.
The documents were furnished only on 13 October 1970.
On 31 July 1970 the petitioner applied for admission to Government College, Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh in Class XI which is ordinarily called the Pre University class.
The short facts of the case are as follows.
K. Mukherjea, J. This appeal by special leave from an order of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh dismissing a writ petition of the appellant companycerns a young companylege boy who is number in the unhappy position where at least two years of his academic life are found to have been wasted in very unfortunate circumstances.
