- (1.) THE appellant seeks to assail the impugned order of learned Single Judge dated 04.10.2013 holding that the appellant was not qualifiedto take admission into the LL.B course. Thus, in effect, puts at nought two years of his education period.
(2.) THE appellant obtained a degree in Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Information Technology) in first division from the Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. The appellant participated in the centralized counseling for admission to the three years' LL.B course for the academic session 2012 -13 and was offered a seat in Guru Nanak Dev University, regional centre at Jalandhar, pursuant whereto, he was granted admission against deposit of requisite fee. However, he shifted to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (main campus) in the second counseling.
(3.) THE travails of the appellant began with a communication dated 01.11.2012 of respondent no. 1 informing the appellant that he did not possess the requisite qualifications for admission to the LL.B course. The case of the appellant is that he concealed nothing the Punjab Technical University had issued a Certificate that the degree obtained by the appellant was equivalent to B.Sc.(IT) LE Degree Course and the Distance Education, under which the appellant has obtained degree of the B.Sc., is also recognized by the Punjab Technical University. The reason for disqualification, as disclosed by the respondents, is that the appellant had suppressed facts as he had only produced the degree of Bachelor of Science, which in turn, did not mentionthat the appellant had taken admission as a Lateral Entry and that he had passed the B.Sc. from the Learning Centre of Distance Education of two years' duration. The Academic Council of the Guru Nanak Dev University, where the appellant opted for his admission, had taken a decision in a meeting held on 12.02.2008 against accepting cases of Lateral Entry. The Lateral Entry permitted the appellant to start from the second year of the course and he had also obtained the degree under the Distance Mode of Education, which could not be equated to three years' degree of B.Sc. (IT). In a nut -shell, it was stated that it would amount to equalization of two years' course as against the pre -requisite of three years' course for seeking admission.;