IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.15371 of 2010 Date of Decision : December 09, 2011. Guntanja Bains .....Petitioner versus Panjab University, Chandigarh .....Respondent Civil Writ Petition No.15473 of 2010 Ved Priya .....Petitioner versus Panjab University, Chandigarh & another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Arjun Pratap Atma Ram, Advocate and Mr.R.K.Malik, Senior Advocate with Mr.Vishal Malik, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.Jasmandeep Singh, Advocate, for Mr.Anupam Gupta, Advocate, for the respondents. -.- 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) This order shall dispose of Civil Writ Petition Nos.15371of 2010 and 15473 of 2010 as common questions of law and facts are involved in these cases. For brevity, the facts are being extracted from CWP No.15371 of 2010. The petitioners who belong to General Category sought admission in L.L.B.(Hons.) Five Years Integrated Course in Panjab CWP Nos.15371 & 15473 of 2010 [2] University Regional Centre, in the academic session 2010-2011 which was denied to them as 5% of the total seats were converted for the reserved category candidates of Backward Classes. The grievance of the petitioners is that the reservation of 5% seats was made after the issuance of the prospectus for which University ought to have created additional seats. A kind of disparity in the creation of additional seats to implement 5% reservation for Backward Class candidates having been noticed by this Court vide an interim order dated 4.10.2010, the University was directed to admit the petitioners in the Five Years L.L.B. Course subject to final outcome of the writ petition. There is no denial to the fact that the petitioners were admitted and now they have completed one year of the course. In the peculiar facts and situation, there appears to be no necessity to proceed with these cases on merits except to observe that the University shall be well within its right to create additional seats and/or earmark out of the existing seats to implement the reservation in favour of the Backward Class candidates. Such a provision shall be implemented prospectively. Resultantly, the admission of the petitioners shall stand regularized leaving it open to the University to implement its policy decision for the session 2010-11 onwards. The writ petitions are allowed in the terms stated above. Dasti. December 09, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE