Summarize the following court judgment. Civil Appeal Nos. 3779	 3653 66	 3524 3528	 3054 of 1982 & C.A. No. 4066 of 1983. Appeals by Special leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 14th September	 1982 of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in C.W.P. Nos. 3669	 3706	 3499	 3443	 3498	 3919	 3958	 3525	 3750	 3912	 3572	 3663	 3680	 3731	 3566 & 3750 of 1982 respectively. 803 Kapil Sibbal	 R.C. Pathak and Atul C. Jain for the Appellant in CA. 3779/82	 CAs. 3653 67/82 & for the Respondents in rest of the Appeals. P.R. Mridul and R.K. Anand for the Appellant in CAs. 3524 26 of 1982. Prem Malhotra and Sarva Mitter for the Appellant in CA. 3527/82. Rameshwar Dayal for the Appellant in CA. 3528/82. Mrs. J. Wad for the Appellant in CA. 3054/82. Randhir Jain for the Intervener. Wadhwani	 A. Minocha	 P.C. Khunger	 Harbans Lal	 N.K. Aggarwal for the Appellants in CA. 4065/83 R.K. Jain	 P.K. Jain	 A.K. Goel	 K.K. Mohan	 Randhir Jain	 P.R. Mridul	 Ravi Kant Chadha and K.B. Rohatgi	 for the appearing Respondents. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRCHUD	 CJ. Eight candidates were admitted to the Punjab Engineering College	 Chandigarh for the academic year 1982 83	 by what is described as the "spot test". Their admission has been struck down by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the ground that it is contrary to the rules and regulations governing admissions to the institution. We are of the opinion that since these students have already completed one or two semesters	 it will be unjust to cancel their admission at this stage and to remove their names from the rolls of the College. We therefore direct that they will be allowed to continue their further studies in the College uninterrupted. By the same standard	 even though the admission of seven wards of the employees of the Punjab Engineering College has been quashed by the High Court on the ground that such admissions are contrary to the relevant rules of admission	 it will not be fair to cancel their admission at this stage. They have also	 like the eight "spot test" students	 completed either one or two semesters of the academic year 1982 83. They will be allowed to continue their further tudies in the College uninterrupted. 804 The admission granted to the candidate Ashok Kumar Kaushik has also been struck down by the High Court	 but he too will be allowed to continue his further studies in the College. We cannot apply to him a different standard than the one which we have applied to the fifteen candidates referred to above	 who are being allowed to continue their studies as if their admission to the College suffered from no defect of illegality. Cases like these in which admissions granted to students in educational institutions are quashed raise a sensitive human issue. It is unquestionably true that the authorities who are charged with the duty of admitting students to educational institutions must act fairly and objectively. If admissions to these institutions are made on extraneous considerations and the authorities violate the norms set down by the rules and regulations	 a sense of resentment and frustration is bound to be generated in the minds of those unfortunate young students who are wrongly of purposefully left out. Indiscipline in educational institutions is not wholly unconnected with a lack of sense of moral values on the part of the administrators and teachers alike. But the problem which the courts are faced with in these cases is	 that it is not until a period of six months or a year elapses after the admissions are made that the intervention of the court comes into play. Writ Petitions involving a challenge to such admissions are generally taken up by the High Courts as promptly as possible but even then	 students who are wrongly admitted finish one or two semester of the course by the time the decision of the High Court is pronounced. A further appeal to this Court consumes still more time	 which creates further difficulties in adjusting equites between students who are wrongly admitted and those who are unjustly excluded. Inevitably	 the Court has to rest content with an academic pronouncement of the true legal position. Students who are wrongly admitted do not suffer the consequences of the manipulations	 if any	 made on their behalf by interested persons. This has virtually come to mean that one must get into an educational institution by means	 fair or foul: once you are in	 no one will put you out. Law 's delays work their wonders in such diverse fashions. We find that this situation has emboldened the erring authorities of educational institutions of various States to indulge in violating the norms of admission with impunity They seem to feel that the Court will leave the admissions in fact	 even if the admissions are 805 granted contrary to the rules and regulations	 This is a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Laws are meant to be obeyed	 not flouted. Some day	 not distant	 if admissions are quashed for the reason that they were made wrongly	 it will have to be directed that the names of students who are wrongly admitted should be removed from the roll of the institution. We might have been justified in adopting this course in this case itself	 but we thought that we may utter a clear warning before taking that precipitate step. We have decided	 regretfully	 to allow the aforesaid sixteen students to continue their studies	 despite the careful and weighty finding of the High Court that at least eight of them	 namely	 the seven wards of employees and Ashok Kumar Kaushik	 were admitted to the Engineering Course in violation of the relevant rules and regulations. It is strange that in all such cases	 the authorities who make admissions by ignoring the rules of admission contend that the seats cannot correspondingly be increased	 since the State Government cannot meet the additional expenditure which will be caused be increasing the number of seats or that the institution will not be able to cope up with the additional influx of students. An additional plea available in regard to Medical Colleges is that the Indian Medical Conucil will not sanction additional seats. We cannot entertain this submission. Those who infringe the rules must pay for their lapse and the wrong done to the deserving students who ought to have been admitted has to be rectified. The best solution under the circumstances is to ensure that the strength of seats is increased in proportion to the wrong admissions made. Since in this case eight students	 and perhaps sixteen were wrongly admitted	 we direct that over and above sanctioned strength for the next academic year commencing in July 1983	 sixteen additional seats shall be created	 to which sixteen students shall be admitted to the Punjab Engineering College from the lists which were prepared for the 1982 83 academic year. These sixteen seats shall be apportioned in an equal measure between the local students belonging to Chandigarh and the general group of students belonging to areas outside Chandigarh. That is to say	 eight students will be admitted from the Chandigarh List of students and eight from the General List of students	 which were prepared for the last academic year	 viz	 1982 83. 806 The only question which survives is whether the sixteen writ petitioners should be admitted to those sixteen seats or whether admission to those seats should be strictly in accordance with merit. We are unable to accept the submission made by the petitioners that they should be preferred for admission irrespective of merit. The circumstance that they filed writ petitions in the High Court but others similarly aggrieved did not	 will not	 justify the granting of admission to them by ignoring those others who were higher up in the merit list. When a similar question arose before this Court in State of Kerala vs Kumari T.P. Roshana	(1) the Court directed the State Government to admit thirty more students. Krishna Iyer	 J. observed: "The selection of these 30 students will not be confined to those who have moved this Court or the High Court by way of writ proceedings or appeal. The measure is academic excellence	 not litigative persistence. It will be thrown open to the first 30	 strictly according to merit measured by marks secured." In Ajay Hasia etc. vs Khalid Mujib Sehravardi	 (2) the State Government the College	 and the Society which was running the College	 all agreed before this Court that the best fifty students out of those who had applied for admission for the academic year 1979 80 and who had failed to secure admission	 would be granted admission for the academic year 1981 82 and that the seats allocated to them would be in addition to the normal intake of students in the College. In Arti Sapru vs State of Jammu and Kashmir & Others	(3) after allowing the writ petitions of candidates who were wrongly denied admission to the Medical Colleges	 it was observed by one of us Pathak	 J.	 that: "The candidates who will be displaced in consequence have already completed a few months of study and in order to avoid serious prejudice and detriment to their careers it is hoped that the State Government will deal sympathetically with their cases so that while effect is 807 given to the judgment of this Court the rules may be suitably relaxed	 if possible by a temporary increase in the number of seats	 in order to accommodate the displaced candidates. " The authorities were directed by this Court to fill up the additional vacancies "on the basis of open merit. " Following these decisions	 we direct that admission to the 16 additional vacancies for the academic year 1983 84 shall be made in accordance with merit on the basis of the lists which were prepared for the academic year 1982 83 for the Chandigarh group of students and the general group of students. We must add that though we are satisfied that the admission of seven wards of employees of the College and of Ashok Kumar Kaushik is contrary to the rules and regulations	 we have not examined the correctness of the finding of the High Court in regard to the alleged illegality of the admission of the eight students who were admitted by the test of "spot selection". We will only reiterate as to this latter class of admissions that the conduct of the authorities charged with the duty of making admissions to educational institutions has to be above suspicion. They cannot play with the lives and careers of the young aspirants who	 standing at the threshold of life	 look to the future with hope and expectations. The appeals will stand disposed of in accordance with this order.

Admissions to the Punjab Engineering College	 Chandigarh for the academic year 1982 83 granted to eight candidates by what is described as the spot test method	 to seven wards of the employees of the Punjab Engineering College and another were struck down by the Punjab High Court as in violation of the rules and regulations governing admissions to the institution. However	 the students wrongly admitted were allowed to continue their studies on humanitarian grounds. Hence the appeals after obtaining special leave of the Court. Disposing of the appeals	 the Court ^ HELD: 1:1 Since all the sixteen students wrongly admitted have already completed one or two semesters it will be unjust to cancel their admission at this stage and to remove their names from the rolls of the College	 and therefore	 they must be allowed to continue their studies as if their admission to the College suffered from no defect or illegality. [803 F G] 1:2 Cases like these in which admissions granted to students in educational institutions are quashed raise a sensitive human issue. It is unquestionably true that the authorities who are charged with the duty of admitting students to educational institutions must act fairly and objectively. If admissions to these institutions are made on extraneous considerations and the authorities violate the norms set down by the rules and regulations	 a sense of resentment and frustration is bound to be generated in the minds of those unfortunate young students who are wrongly or purposefully left out. On the other hand	 students who are wrongly admitted do not suffer the consequences of the manipulations	 if any	 made on their behalf by interested persons. [804 B D F] 1:3 Law 's delays work their wonders in such diverse fashions with the result that the courts find it difficult to adjust equities between students who are wrongly admitted and those who are unjustly excluded. Since by the time the High Courts take up the matter and finally decide the cases	 students who are 802 wrongly admitted finish one or two semesters of the course and the courts are regretfully perforced to allow them to continue their studies. [804 F G] The court observed that "this situation has emboldened the erring authorities or educational institutions of various States to indulge in violating the norms of admission with impunity. They seem to feel that the courts will leave the admissions in tact	 even if the admissions are granted contrary to the rules and regulations	 which is a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Laws are meant to be obeyed	 not flouted. Some day not distant	 if admissions are quashed for the reason that they were made wrongly	 it will have to be directed that the names of students who are wrongly admitted should be removed from the rolls of the institution." [804 H	 805 A B] 2:1 The contention that the seats cannot correspondingly be increased since the State Government cannot meet the additional expenditure which will be caused by increasing the number of seats or that the institution will not be able to cope up with the additional influx of students cannot be accepted. [805 C D] 2:2 Those who infringe the rule must pay for their lapse and the wrong done to the deserving students who ought to have been admitted has to be rectified. The best solution under the circumstances is to ensure that the strength of seats is increased in proportion to the wrong admissions made. [805 E F] The court directed that 8 seats should be for the students from the Chandigarh list and the other 8 seats from the General List of students which were prepared for the academic year 1982 83. [805 G H] 3. The reservation of the sixteen seats are not open exclusively to the writ petitioners. The circumstance that they filed writ petitions in the High Court but others similarly aggrieved did not	 will not justify the granting of admission to them by ignoring those others who were higher up in the merit list. [806 A B] [The Court directed the authorities to fill up the additional vacancies "on the basis of open merit"] State of Kerala vs Kumari T.P.Roshana	 ; ; Ajay Hasia etc. vs Khalid Mujib Sehrawardi	 ; Arti Sapru vs State of Jammu and Kashmir and Ors.	 ; 	 followed.