Law: Government College University Lahore Ordinance, 2002

Section: 10

Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Law: Government College University, Lahore Examination Rules, 2007

Section: 3.1.7,3.6

IJAZ AHMAD CHAUDHRY, J.---This order will dispose of Writ Petitions Nos. 14249/09, 14292/09, 14293/09, 14713/09, 14714/09, 14715/09, 14716/09, 14717/09 , 14718/09 and 14345/09 as identical questions of law and facts are, involved therein. However, it shall remain on the file of Writ Petition No. 14249/09.   Through these petitions under Article 199 of the Constitution; of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, the petitioners have prayed for declaring the impugned notification, dated 4-7-2009 as illegal, unlawful, ultra vires and against the fundamental rights of the petitioners and further direction to respondents Nos. 1 to 5 to conduct examination of 4th semester for the petitioners about the subjects/courses which examinations had been taken before filing of the writ petitions and to allow them to appear in the economic papers and to award them degree of M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and SME Management (Economics) Evening program for the Sessions 2007-2009.   The brief facts narrated in all the writ petitions are that the petitioners had applied in response to the admission notice published in the daily Newspaper "Nation", dated 205-2007 for admission in M.Sc. program 2007-09 (Evening Programme) for disciplines of Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprise Management etc. The petitioners being graduate applied for the admission in M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and SME Management for two years duration i.e. 4-Semesters. The 1st Semester Classes started on 17-9-2007 and the petitioners were allotted Roll Numbers. The duration of each semesters was four months and Mid Term examination of each semester were held after two months of the commencement of the semester. In nutshell the claim of all the petitioners is that all of them having obtained CPGA more than 2.00 were qualified as per Prospectus of the University of Government College University for appearing in the other semester but they have been wrongly treated by the respondent on probation and it has been wrongly declared that they should be dropped as they have not earned CPGA 2.50. It has been wrongly declared that CPGA 2.50 was necessary for appearance in the further examination and…