CWP No.22014 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.22014 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision:25.08.2011 Shashi Bala ..... Petitioner Versus Punjab Technical University and others ..... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present: Mr.Vikram Bali, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Amrit Paul, Advocate for respondent No.1. Mr.Ravi Kapur, Advocate and Ms.Surabhi Jain, Advocate for respondents No.2 and 3. ***** RAJIVE BHALLA, J. (ORAL) CM No.8233 of 2011 Application is allowed. Replication is taken on record. CWP No.22014 of 2010 The petitioner has filed this writ petition with a prayer that she should be issued a roll number and an admit card so that she may sit for the B.Tech (Information Technology), 5th Semester Examination, to be held from 10.12.2010 to 20.12.2010 By way of an interim order, the petitioner was allowed to sit for the 5th Semester examination and as submitted by counsel for the petitioner, she has taken the examination. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner could not attend lectures as she got married against the wish of her parents. Her parents instructed the hostel CWP No.22014 of 2010 (O&M) -2- warden to bar her entry to the hostel. The petitioner, therefore, could not attend college, leading to shortage in the requisite number of lectures. Counsel for the Punjab Technical University submits that as the matter relates to the college, the University has no objection, either way. Counsel for the college submits that as the petitioner has appeared in the examination and has thereafter migrated to another college, this Court may pass such orders as it may deem appropriate. A prima facie appraisal of the facts reveals that the petitioner was absent from the college between October to November, 2010. The explanation furnished by the petitioner, that she was absent as she got married against wish of her parents appears to be correct. Parental opposition to the marriage led to a serious trauma in petitioner's life preventing her from attending college. The petitioner has appeared in the examination. The predicament of the petitioner should have caused the college to take a sympathetic view and condoned the shortage of lectures. The writ petition is accordingly allowed, the petitioner's default is condoned and the Punjab Technical University-respondent No.1 is directed to declare the petitioner's result of B.Tech (Information Technology), 5th Semester Examination held in 2010, forthwith. 25.08.2011 [RAJIVE BHALLA] shamsher JUDGE CWP No.22014 of 2010 (O&M) -3-