IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15966 of 2010 Date of Decision : December 01, 2011. Sumit Biswas .....Petitioner versus The Punjab Engineering College and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Amit Chopra, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Karan Singh Sandhu, Advocate, for Mr.Anupam Gupta, Advocate, for the respondents. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The solitary question that arises for consideration is as to whether the result of the petitioner in Mathematics-II should remain as “Grade-D” or it should be downgraded to “Grade-E” as per his result of re- appear examination. There is no serious dispute that on 25.2.2010, the respondent- University has amended and incorporated the following clause in the Rules of Bachelor of Engineering Programme:- “The grades of any and all repeated courses are included in the official transcripts. However, once a student repeats a course, the earlier grade will not enter into the CWP No.15966 of 2010 [2] computation of CGPA....” It is also not in dispute that the petitioner got himself registered for re-appearance in January, 2010 i.e. before the above stated amended rules came into force. In these circumstances, giving marginal benefit to the petitioner, the writ petition is allowed; the impugned order dated 20.8.2010 is set-aside and it is directed that instead of down-grading the petitioner's result, it be graded as “D” for the reason that the amended rule shall come into force prospectively. Dasti. December 01, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE