IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN WEDNESDAY, THE 20TH AUGUST 2008 / 29TH SRAVANA 1930 WP(C).No. 23792 of 2008(G) -------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------ V.K.KEETHAN, 24 YEARS, S/O.A.V. KARTHIKEYAN, F4 ROHINI GARDENIA 26D WARNERS ROAD, CANTONMENT, TRICHY-6820001, TAMIL NADU, NOW R/AT.B-702, 7TH FLOOR SHANTHI GARDENS, THOPPIL, THRIKKAKARA, KOCHI-22, ERNAKULAM. BY ADV. SRI.B.MOHANLAL SRI.SAIJU. S RESPONDENTS: ------------- 1. COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REP. BY ITS REGISTRAR, THRIKKAKARA, KOCHI-22, ERNAKULAM. 2. CONTROLLER OF EXAMINATIONS, COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCED AND TECHNOLOGY, THRIKKAKARA, KOCHI-22, ERNAKULAM DIST. 3. VICE-CHANCELLOR, COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THRIKKAKARA, KOCHI-22, ERNAKULAM. 4. PRINCIPAL, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THRIKKAKARA, KOCHI-22, ERNAKULAM. BY ADV. SRI.S.P.ARAVINDAKSHAN PILLAI,SC,COCHI U FOR R1 TO 4 THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 20/08/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. Siri Jagan, J. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= W. P (C) No. 23792 of 2008 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dated this, the 20th August, 2008. J U D G M E N T The petitioner is a software engineer. Originally, after completing his higher secondary course, he joined Indian Navy as a cadet. Since he was eligible for pursuing the engineering course in the Naval College of Engineering, the petitioner was selected and he was undergoing the course there. However, since he contracted a disease which resulted in partial paralysis of his left arm, he was discharged from the Naval service. But, taking a sympathetic view, the Indian Navy was gracious enough to permit the petitioner to continue studies in the engineering course and he got a transfer to one of the institutions run by the Cochin University of Science and Technology with the consent of the then Vice Chancellor of the University. The petitioner underwent the course and passed the examination also. However, the University is not issuing the degree certificate to the petitioner, is the grievance of the the petitioner in this writ petition. 2. I had directed the learned standing counsel for the University to get instructions in the matter. Learned standing counsel submits that the difficulty in issuing the degree certificate is because part of the studies of the petitioner was in the Naval College of Engineering. I do not think that, that can be a bar for issuing degree certificate to the petitioner, since the petitioner was validly transferred to the Cochin University of Science and Technology. In so far as the petitioner has passed all the examinations, he is entitled to the degree certificate. Accordingly, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to see that the petitioner is issued with a provisional degree certificate and mark list as expeditiously as possible, at any W.P.C. No. 23792/2008 -: 2 :- rate, within one week from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment. The petitioner shall also be issued with original degree certificate in due course. Sd/- S. Siri Jagan, Judge. Tds/ [True copy] P.S to Judge.