CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 18912 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 18912 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION: NOVEMBER 30, 2010 Kiranpreet Kaur .....Petitioner VERSUS Vice Chancellor, Panjab University & another ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH. PRESENT: Ms. Meenakshi Dogra, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. A.S. Gill, Advocate, for the respondents. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner has prayed for mandamus to the respondents for grant of admission in B.A. L.LB. Course run by the respondent/University. The last date for submitting the application forms was 30.6.2010. The petitioner was unable to submit the form in time. She finally submitted the admission form on 2.7.2010. She was not considered for admission on the ground of late submission of admission form. The main ground advanced to press for the claim primarily is that some of the candidates, who had applied for admission after the last date, have been considered and granted admission. Counsel for the petitioner would refer to the list of the late CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 18912 of 2010 -2- applicants annexed with the writ petition as Annexure P-5. The University has filed reply. To explain the same, counsel for the University would submit that the University has made a provision to fill up vacant seat by grant of admission to those late applicants, who are amongst 25% in the top merit. Thus, the seats remaining vacant have been filled up amongst the meritorious candidates. The whole case set up by the petitioner is that her case be considered for admission, though she has applied late like other candidates who have applied late. All the late applicants have been considered on merit and granted admission. The criteria is apparently reasonable to fill up the vacant seats. The submission of the counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner should be considered in the Sports Category is not made out as for that she was required to apply in time. Once the last date of submission of application was over, the petitioner could only be considered in the relevant Regulation of the University, which regulates grant of admission to late applicant only, which is granted on the basis of merit. There is, thus, no merit in the writ petition. The same is, accordingly, dismissed. November 30, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) monika JUDGE