26.06.2025
PER DIXIT KRISHNA SHRIPAD, J.
The students are knocking at the doors of Writ Court
complaining that the opposite parties are not permitting
them to take the academic examinations in the Visual Art
course and therefore they having been admitted to the
course duly and they having made all the payments, a
direction should be issued both to the University and to the
College to regularize their course and permit them to take
the imminent examination concerned.
2. Learned panel counsel appearing for the University
opposes the petition contending that the Academic Council
of the University in question vide Resolution No.174 dated
26.03.2015 has upwardly revised the age limit to 35 years
from earlier 23 years for gaining admission to the course in
question; both the petitioners having crossed the age limit
got the admission at the hands of College in question and
therefore their admissions have rightly not been approved
by the University. He also contends that the Academic
Council being the academic body has power to prescribe
conditions of the kind and the judicial institution has to
respect the same since ordinarily it does not have academic
expertise in matters, like this.