IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.10957 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision : November 11, 2011. Ritika Birthal .....Petitioner versus Union Territory, Chandigarh and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Arjun Partap Atma Ram, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms.Namrata Shergill, Advocate, for Mr.Himmat Singh Shergill, Advocate, for respondent No.2. -.- 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 petitioner seeks quashing of a part of the reservation policy contained in paragraphs 19 & 23 of Information Brochure issued by the Panjab University for admission to B.Com. First Year degree course, on the plea that the benefit of reservation for Backward Classes or Other Backward Classes has not been extended to the residents of U.T. Chandigarh. Panjab University has filed its reply-affidavit explaining that though the U.T. Chandigarh in its Reservation Policy has made reservation for Backward/Other Backward Classes, however, the University Calendar CWP No.10957 of 2010 (O&M) [2] is yet to be amended and it still does not contain any such reservation. The University has also come up with the plea that admissions in the Colleges are regulated as per the University calendar only. A Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide orders dated 24.08.2010, 17.9.2010 and 22.9.2010 commanded the respondent- University to consider the petitioner's claim for admission under the Other Backward Class category and if so required, by creating a seat. There is indeed no dispute that pursuant to these directions, the petitioner has been admitted in Three years' B.Com degree course and she is pursuing the same for the last more than 1½ year. It might be true, as contained in the written statement of the University, that admissions in all the colleges affiliated to it are required to be regulated in accordance with the University Calendar and mere publication of Reservation Policy by the Union Territory, unless corresponding seats are created, might not entitle a candidate to seek the benefit of reservation as a matter of right, never-the-less, this issue need not be gone into by this court for the reason that pursuant to the interim directions issued by this Court, the petitioner has already been admitted in Three Years B.Com Degree Course, which is also deemed to have resulted into creation of an additional seat by the Chandigarh Administration in the Government College for Women, Sector-11, Chandigarh against which the petitioner has been admitted. Taking into consideration the totality of circumstances, however keeping the contentions raised by the University open, the writ CWP No.10957 of 2010 (O&M) [3] petition is allowed and the respondent-University is directed to regularize the petitioner's admission in Three Years B.Com degree course in the college. Dasti. November 11, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE