HC relief for HSC student after hall-ticket goof-up by college

MUMBAI :In a relief for a student who did not receive a hall ticket as his name was not sent by the college to the HSC board, Bombay high court has directed it to be forthwith issued upon the college paying late fees.

Rao Education Trust’s junior college will pay Rs 27,000/- to the board so that Atharva Thite’s name will be included in the list of candidates who took the exams and a hall-ticket issued to him. Hall ticket number is required for sending internal marks of students to the board for declaring results.
The Trust’s petition said while sending science students' names to the board Atharva’s name was inadvertently omitted by the college staff. The error came to light after the hall-tickets were distributed to students. Sincere efforts were made to rectify the error with the board and the management offered to pay the full penalty or fine but under the rules the board could not do it at that stage. The petition said “gross injustice has been caused to the student and his parents’’ and if HC does not intervene Atharva could lose a valuable academic year.

On Thursday before a bench of Justice Ramesh Dhanuka and Justice Riyaz Chagla, the Trust’s advocate C R Sadasivan sought parity with a July 13 order in a similar case where P D Lions College, Malad, agreed to pay late fee of Rs 25,000/- each in respect of two students.


The board’s advocate Kiran Gandhi said not only Rs 27,000/- but the college should be directed to pay exemplary cost and the amount given to any relief fund. Also, that it must not be allowed to recover the amount from the student. The judges were not inclined to direct the college of exemplary cost “in the facts and circumstances of the case.” Directing that the hall-ticket shall be issued not later than July 24, they clarified that “late fee charges which shall be paid by the petitioner college shall not be recovered from the said student.”