CWP No.9966 of 2009 : 1 : In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. Date of decision: 16.09.2009 Neha Soni ... Petitioner Versus The Registrar,Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot and others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI Present: Mr.Surmukh Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Alka Chatrath, Advocate,for respondent No.1. Mr.Namit Kumar, Advocate,for respondent Nos.2 and 3. PERMOD KOHLI, J. (Oral): Respondent No.1 issued Prospectus for holding Punjab Medical Entrance Test, 2009, for admission to various courses including MBBS/BDS/BAMS/BHMS. The petitioner applied for the courses aforesaid for which test was to be conducted on 14.06.2009. She was allotted Roll No.575854. The petitioner participated in the Entrance Test and secured 1578 rank in the general category. The candidates who were successful in the Entrance Test were required to fill admission form for which last date as fixed as 26.06.2009 upto 5.00 p.m. It is the admitted case of the parties that she sent form on 24.06.2009 from Gurdaspur through speed post. However, the application from of the petitioner was received by the respondents on 29.06.2009. Since the admission form was received beyond the time prescribed under the Prospectus, the petitioner was not CWP No.9966 of 2009 : 2 : considered for admission. The petitioner after making a representation filed this petition seeking a direction for her consideration for admission to the courses mentioned above and other allied courses. In the reply filed, the respondents have referred to the provisions of the Prospectus. It is stated that since the petitioner's admission form was delivered at Faridkot on 29.06.2009, i.e. beyond the period prescribed, the candidature of the petitioner has not been considered. The controversy involved in the present writ petition is squarely covered by a Full Bench judgment of this Court in the case of Rahul Prabhakar Vs. Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, 1997 (3) SCT, 526, wherein the following observations have been made:- “I am, therefore, of the opinion that when the date or time has been stipulated in the advertisement and also in the Information Brochure, it must be strictly adhered to as otherwise it leads to uncertainty, unending process, anomaly and deprivation of equality clause and further it widens the competition amongst the candidates seeking admission into professional courses. It is also difficult to determine upto what period the time limit can be extended. If such power is to be exercised, it will lead to arbitrariness.” In view of the dictum of the aforesaid judgments, no relief can be granted to the petitioner in this petition and the same is hereby dismissed CWP No.9966 of 2009 : 3 : with no order as to costs. 16.09.2009 (PERMOD KOHLI) BLS JUDGE