THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.8368 OF 2010 Dated 15th April, 2010 Between: Ms.Y.Sravanthi …Petitioner And 1.Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, rep. by its Principal, Gandipet, Hyderabad and 3 others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Vijay Bhaskar Kakunoor.B. Counsel for the respondents : --- The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in detaining the petitioner in B.Tech Engineering (Chemical) for the academic year, 2009-10 for shortage of attendance as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner is a third year B.Tech student. On the ground that she fell short of required attendance, she is not permitted to attend second semester examinations by respondent No.1. According to the petitioner, her father had a fall, on account of which he received serious injuries. He was stated to be inpatient for one month in Care Hospital and Railway Hospital and as she was allegedly attending to her father, she could not attend the college for some time. It is her further case that in view of the disturbances on account of recent agitations, she could not attend the classes on some other days. It is not the pleaded case of the petitioner that she registered minimum attendance of 65%. As held by a Division Bench of this Court in B.Yugandar vs. Principal, Kuppam Engineering College, Chittoor District[1], the University has power to condone the shortage of attendance up to 10% only. Unless the petitioner is able to succeed in showing that she had a minimum attendance of 65%, none of the respondents have power under the extant regulations of respondent No.2- University to permit the petitioner to attend the classes. In this view of the matter, it is not possible for this Court to accept the prayer of the petitioner. The petitioner is, however, permitted to make a representation to respondent No.2. If such a representation is made, respondent No.2 shall call for records from respondent No.1. If the record reveals that the petitioner had a minimum of 65% of attendance, she shall be permitted to appear for the examinations. If, on the other hand, the record reveals that she does not possess the minimum attendance of 65%, the petitioner is not entitled to appear for the second semester examinations. Subject to the above observations, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.10780 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 15th April, 2010 lur [1] 2008 (2) ALT 529 (D.B.)