Mumbai University student's plea to save a year rejected
The university had cancelled his admission as he had failed to clear a semester II paper.
Mumbai: Upholding the University of Mumbai’s rule that stipulates that the failure to clear semester II will make a student ineligible for writing tests for semester V and VI, the Bombay high court rejected the petition of an undergraduate law student. The high court said the student’s exam results for semester V were null and void since he had not cleared the semester II test before appearing for the semester V exams.
A division bench of justices Shantanu Kemkar and B.P. Colabawalla was hearing a writ petition filed by Deepak Agarwal seeking directions to the university to confirm his admission in the final year of the three-year LLB course for the academic year 2016-17. The university had cancelled his admission as he had failed to clear a semester II paper in the subject Law of Crimes before taking admission for the final year.
The university’s petition had contended that he had failed in the said paper in 2015 and thereafter failed in the subsequent next two attempts too in the academic year 2015-16. He had managed to clear the semester III and IV exams and hence was given provisional admission in the third year consisting of the fifth and sixth semester as he had applied for revaluation of his third attempt in the Law of Crime paper. However, after revaluation, he was declared failed and hence appeared for the same along with the fifth-semester papers and managed to clear the semester II paper on his fourth attempt.