Civil Writ Petition No.3088 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3088 of 2008 Date of decision: March 18, 2008 Lohit Abrol … Petitioner Versus Punjab School Education Board and others … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Naveen Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. None for the Board. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. In May, 2006, petitioner had undertaken matriculation examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal. Petitioner had got compartment in the subject of Mathematics. After declaration of the matriculation result, he got himself admitted with respondent No.2, i.e., Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Phagwara, Distt. Kapurthala in 11th class and deposited the requisite fee. Subsequently, petitioner had taken supplementary examination, passed the subject in which he had got compartment and was declared pass. Thereafter, he passed the examination held for 11th class. Respondent No.2 has filed reply and has stated that Migration Certificate (Annexure P-6) was got issued on 5th December, 2007, Civil Writ Petition No.3088 of 2008 2 whereas petitioner completed matriculation in 2006 and this migration has been brought by the petitioner well after more than 1 ½ years of his having cleared the examination in July 2006 and it was stated that due to negligence on the part of the petitioner, migration certificate was not submitted. Petitioner had filed the present writ petition on February 28, 2008. This Court directed respondent No.1, i.e., Punjab School Education Board to issue roll number to the petitioner and to allow him to appear in the examination. It was further stated in the interim order that the result declared will be subject to final decision of the writ petition. There is no doubt that migration certificate would only be issued after petitioner had passed his compartment in the examination. Therefore, delay was bound to occur in obtaining the migration certificate. Since under the interim order of this Court, petitioner has undertaken the examination of 10+2, it was incumbent upon the Board to overlook technical objection of delay in submitting the migration certificate. Therefore, we direct that the petitioner, who had appeared in examination for 10+2 under the interim order passed by this Court, his admission shall stand regularized and Punjab School Education Board, respondent No.1 shall declare his result. With these observations, present writ petition is disposed off. [Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia] Judge [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge March 18, 2008. rps