Court cancels student's admission

However, such an act proved to be costly for a student of Bachelor of Computer Application(BCA), whose admission has been cancelled by the Delhi High Court.

Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw ordered cancellation of admission of Tarun Kapoor, a fourth semester student of  BCA in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, for concealing the fact that he had not scored 50 per cent marks in the 12 th examination.

Kapoor, who scored 49.5 percent marks in the Central Board of Secondary Education examination in 2009, had rounded off the mark to 50 per cent to secure admission.

Without showing any leniency, the high court said the petitioner is not entitled to any relief for misrepresenting his marks as 50 per cent instead of giving the actual facts.

“Though the petitioner has pleaded that he had shown his original certificates and mark-sheets at the time of counseling and the officials concerned were aware of his having 49.5 per cent marks only and not 50 per cent marks but in view of the petitioner having filled up 50 per cent instead of the correct figure of 49.5 per cent in the application form, the said plea cannot be accepted,’’ the judge observed in the ruling.

The judge reasoned his arguments saying, “it is a well known fact that hundreds, if not thousands of candidates appear for counselling; the officials of the university at that time do not have the time to scrutinise   documents and proceed on the basis of forms filled up by the candidates.

“The petitioner cannot be said to be unaware of the specific prohibition in the admission brochure against rounding-off.’’

The judge said Kapoor did not fill up the page of the form that clearly directs students from prohibiting rounding off their marks.

“The petitioner is thus found to have misrepresented and practiced deceit and is not entitled to any relief on this ground alone,’’ the high court added.

On November 23, 2009, the university sent a letter to the student cancelling the admission as he had not scored the required mark in the qualifying examination and the prospectus had clearly mentioned that rounding off the marks would not be allowed.

Both Kapoor and his mother had approached the high court seeking judicial intervention to allow him to complete the course which he had been pursuing for the last two years at the Institute of Information and Technology in New Delhi.