CWP No.4501 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No.4501 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: 7.9.2011 Ankur Kapoor ..Petitioner Versus Panjab University and others ..Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present : Mr. Sameer Sachdeva, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Rohit Dheer, Advocate for respondent no.3 RAJIVE BHALLA, J ( ORAL) The petitioner prays for issuance of a writ, or order to direct the respondents to allow the petitioner to complete his (Bachelor of Arts Course) instead of requiring him to take the Information Technology examination of B.A. Part- I. Counsel for the petitioner submits that as the petitioner could not pass the Information Technology examination of B.A.Part-I, he requested that he should be allowed to change the subject during the supplementary examination. The petitioner was allowed a change of subject, appeared in the Sociology examination in September, 2009 and passed this examination. The University has, however, withheld his result by insisting that the petitioner should pass the Information Technology examination of B.A. Part-I. It is further submitted that as during pendency of the writ petition, the CWP No.4501 of 2011 2 petitioner has appeared in and passed the Information Technology paper, the petitioner's result may be regularised. Counsel for the respondent-University does not deny that the petitioner has cleared the subject of Information Technology B.A. Part-I and the Sociology exam, but states that as he has passed the examination pursuant to an interim order passed by this Court, the petitioner cannot claim regularisation of his result, as a matter of right. I have heard counsel for the parties and perused the paper- book. The petitioner got a compartment in Information Technology in B.A. Part-I, but was allowed to a change in the subject. The petitioner, therefore, appeared in the Sociology paper, during the supplementary examination. Upon insistence by the University, the petitioner has passed the I.T. paper, though pursuant to an interim order passed by this court. The error committed by the University in allowing the petitioner to change his subject cannot be held against the petitioner. Even otherwise, as the petitioner has passed the Information Technology paper, the objection raised by the University no longer survives. As a consequence, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondent-University to regularise the petitioner's Bachelor of Arts course and declare his result forthwith. 7.9.2011 ( RAJIVE BHALLA ) VK JUDGE