HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 10856 OF 2010 . DATED 29th JUNE, 2011 BETWEEN Ch.Amulya …Petitioner And Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, rep. by its Vice Chancellor, And, ors. ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 10856 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner has prayed for a direction to be issued to the respondents to permit her to appear for II Semester III year B.Tech. Engineering (EEE branch) examinations to be held in the third respondent college for the academic year 2009-2010. It has been averred by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner had not been allowed to appearing for the aforesaid academic examinations on account of short fall of attendance. It has further been averred that the aforesaid short fall of attendance was on account of Telangana agitations and curfew imposed in the old city area. The learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent-University submits that the petitioner has put in only 53% attendance and as per University Regulations, she is not entitled to appear for the aforesaid academic examinations. He relied on the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in the case of B.YUGANDHAR Vs. PRINCIPAL, KUPPAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KUPPM, CHITTOR DISTRICT { 2008(2) ALT 529 (DB)}. In the aforesaid decision, the Division Bench has held that Court cannot issue a judicial fiat to University to admit a candidate to semester examination when he/she does not fulfill the requirement of minimum attendance even after considering permissible shortage on the ground of sympathy and thereby violate the mandate of Academic Regulations. In view of the aforementioned judgment, it must be held that the Court cannot issue a judicial fiat to the respondents to permit the petitioner to appear for the examinations. Further, it is to be seen that the academic year for which the petitioner prayed to permit her to appear for the examinations was already over. In that view of the matter, I find no merit in the Writ Petition. The Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. -------------------------------------- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 29th June, 2011. Msnro