Supreme Court of India

Punjab University Chandigarh v. Devjani Chakrabarti & Others

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Reported as [1984] 3 S.C.R. 815
Bench A.P Sen, A. Varadarajan and V. Balakrishna Eradi JJ.
Decided 17 May 1984

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that these appeals have to be allowed.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

j · Punjl:b University Act, Section 20 (5) and Section 31-Power of the Syndicate, to make rules, relating to the pattertr of education- No rule can -be S(lid to be retrospective merely because they subsequently applied to students who. had earlier started their educadonal careers. · ·With the introduction of the system known as f'lO plus 2 plus 3" in the educat_ional L1sti1utions in the couutry, the Asscciation of the Indi'an Universities decided the equivalence of this 10+2+3 system with the ·old 11+3 yeafs degree course system still prevalent is some States and it suggested that in all

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