IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5527 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision : November 17, 2011. Akarsh Pandey .....Petitioner versus Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.B.S.Saroha, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The admission of the petitioner in B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) in respondent No.3-college has been cancelled and the result of the examination with-held by the Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak on the plea that the petitioner was ineligible for admission as he did not qualify the subject of English at 10+2 level. Relying upon the eligibility criteria for admission given in the Admission Brochure for the session 2010-11, as reproduced in para No.4 of the writ petition, the contention of the petitioner is that he was required to pass the following four subjects at 10+2 level, namely, Chemistry, Bio- Technology, Computer Science and Biology which he has admittedly passed. CWP No.5527 of 2011(O&M) [2] While issuing notice to the respondents this Court vide order dated 28.3.2011 allowed the petitioner to attend the classes provisionally subject to the final outcome of the writ petition. No one has put in appearance on behalf of the respondents despite service as noticed by this Court on 26.8.2011. Today also, the respondents are unrepresented. They have chosen not to file any reply also. In these circumstances, the plea taken by the petitioner having gone un-rebutted, the writ petition is allowed; the action of the respondent- university with-holding the result of the petitioner is quashed and the university is directed to regularize the admission of the petitioner in B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) and declare his result. Dasti. November 17, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE