Sympathy Cannot Be A Substitute For Legal Entitlement; Writ Court Cannot Re-Write Academic Regulations: Bombay High Court Upholds Student's Low Attendance Debarment
29 Jun, 2026
Sympathy Cannot Be A Substitute For Legal Entitlement; Writ Court Cannot Re-Write Academic Regulations: Bombay High Court Upholds Student's Low Attendance Debarment
The Bombay High Court dismissed a psychology student's writ petition challenging her debarment for low attendance, which she attributed to a psychiatric condition. The Court held that a writ court cannot assess medical records to substitute expert medical opinion, and that sympathy cannot be a substitute for legal entitlement or justify re-writing academic regulations. Verdictum article