Civil Writ Petition No.6869 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.6869 of 2008 Date of decision: 28th April, 2008 Neerupama Sharma … Petitioner Versus Baba Farid University of Health Sciences and others … Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Mr. Paramjit Singh Goraya, Advocate for the petitioner. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. The present writ petition has been filed by Neerupama Sharma, a student of B.Sc. Nursing – 2nd year in Sri Guru Ram Dass College of Nursing, Canal Road Hoshiarpur, impleaded as respondent No.3 along with Principal of the college, respondent No.4. Petitioner has sought a writ in the nature of mandamus seeking direction to Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot and Controller, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, respondent No.1 and 2 respectively, to grant average marks in the internal assessment as given to other candidates and further prayed that a writ of certiorari be issued and internal assessment marks awarded to the petitioner in Annexure P-1 to P- 6, i.e. in the paper of Medical Surgical NSG-I, Introduction to Community Health Nursing including Sociology, Medical Surgical NSG-II, Medical Surgical NSG-II (Practical), Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Theory), Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Practical) be quashed, and has sought Civil Writ Petition No.6869 of 2008 2 a further direction that the respondent No.3 and 4, i.e. the College should allow the petitioner to continue her studies in B.Sc. Nursing – 3rd year. It has been pleaded in the writ petition that petitioner along with her father, at the time of admission in September, 2005 raised a dispute that the college management has not issued receipt for the whole amount and further when admission was to be made in the second year, respondent college had issued the receipts which were undervalued. However, the examination form attested by the Principal of the college was forwarded to the University. It has been further pleaded that the protest of the petitioner and her father against the issuance of the receipts not for the full amount had invited a threat from the college authorities to spoil the career of the petitioner. It has been stated that there has been over-writing and tampering in the internal assessment marks only to humiliate the petitioner on that score. In the writ petition, petitioner has also prayed that the inquiry should be handed over to the CBI as the respondent-college is extracting money of the students by dubious means. It has been further stated in the writ petition that respondent-college is running a college like a grocery shop. It has been stated in para 14 of the writ petition that petitioner had also filed a petition before the Consumer Court at Hoshiarpur, but the judgment of the Consume Court has not been attached with the writ petition. We take a strong notice of all kind of wild allegations made in the writ petition. A bad artisan will always quarrel with his tools. Similarly petitioner, who has not performed well in the examination, instead of improving in academics, have leveled allegations that she has been harmed in her internal assessment due to mala fide reasons. Curiously enough, no functionary or member of the College has been impleaded in person. Civil Writ Petition No.6869 of 2008 3 We are hesitant to intervene in teacher-taught relationship. Disputed questions of fact cannot be determined in this writ petition. Even otherwise, in writ jurisdiction, we refrain ourselves to intervene in academic matters, as what marks a student should get in an internal assessment, is not a function of the Court. Therefore, we find no merit in the present writ petition and the same is dismissed. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE [ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA] JUDGE April 28, 2008 rps