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The court quashed cancellation of a Scheduled Caste child's RTE admission, holding distance norms cannot be rigidly enforced where a Division Bench ordered their removal for unaided schools and compliance would cost the child an academic year. The ruling affirms procedural barriers cannot override substantive educational access for disadvantaged groups.

Rajasthan HC holds temporary NOC extension for agricultural colleges requires fulfillment of Clause 8.2 conditions, not merely time period under Clause 8.4.

The Gujarat High Court ruled that a minor’s temporary move due to a parent’s job transfer does not break continuous residence for a domicile certificate. It quashed the rejection and ordered issuance within three weeks, affecting minors facing parental transfers.

Supreme Court rules that fees for professional courses must be notified before admission and can be changed only for unforeseen expenditure increases, ordering refund of excess fees collected. This ensures student certainty and lets institutions cover genuine cost rises.

Calcutta HC held that a student with 62.61% attendance is ineligible for condonation under university rules requiring a 65% threshold for B.Com-LLB courses. The judgment upholds the attendance requirement, orders publication of the withheld results, and affects students seeking condonation for insufficient attendance.

Punjab & Haryana HC held that an OBC-NCL candidate cannot be excluded from MBBS merit list due to 'migrant' certificate label, quashing provisional list and directing fresh counselling. This protects OBC reservation benefits for medical aspirants in Chandigarh UT.

Punjab & Haryana High Court held that MBBS prospectus cannot be altered after process starts and that migrant SC certificates do not bar reservation. It quashed revised list and directed a fresh list within ten days, affecting Chandigarh MBBS aspirants.

Patna HC rules DOB discrepancy between school and matriculation certificates is mere irregularity, not fraud; termination after 19 years violates Article 311. Division Bench quashes termination, awards full back wages, and applies 42-year age limit under 2020 Rules. Ruling protects long-serving contractual employees from belated disciplinary action over minor documentary inconsistencies.

The Supreme Court upheld the NCTE's Public Notice requiring Teacher Education Institutions to submit annual Performance Appraisal Reports, holding the Executive Committee authorised to enforce the Council's policy. The ruling affirms regulatory accountability mechanisms are intrinsic to statutory regulators, overturning a High Court verdict that struck down the mandate as arbitrary.

Tripura High Court ruled that an 18-month Diploma in Elementary Education completed through NIOS satisfies the eligibility criteria for the Tripura Teacher Eligibility Test 2024, ordering the issuance of the certificate and the petitioner’s consideration for appointment. The decision overrides the prospectus’s two-year diploma requirement, widening eligibility for ODL candidates in future TET recruitments.

Punjab & Haryana HC dismisses NEET UG 2026 answer key challenges, upholds expert panel's 'most appropriate answer' standard and OMR marking rules.

A foreign LL.B., even if recognised by the Bar Council of India, does not satisfy the ‘first degree’ requirement for entry into India’s three-year LL.B. programmes. The Bombay High Court upheld the university’s cancellation of the petitioner’s provisional admission on this basis. The decision narrows eligibility for overseas law graduates seeking domestic LL.B. enrollment.

The Patna High Court quashed the expulsion, ruling that a private unaided school must follow natural-justice safeguards before dismissing a student, thereby extending Article 226’s writ reach to private schools delivering public education.

Central government must provide subvention to private medical colleges only for students admitted up to the 2002-03 academic year, as the Supreme Court applied the T.M.A. Pai Foundation decision prospectively. Orders directing payments for later admissions are set aside, impacting colleges that relied on the scheme beyond that cut-off.

The Delhi High Court affirmed that the executive alone may adjust reservation allocations, barring the de-reservation of OBC-reserved DNB seats for unreserved candidates after counselling. This safeguards OBC candidates’ entitlement in medical postgraduate admissions and limits unilateral seat reallocation by institutions.