The student, in her plea, claimed there was an error in her attendance computation and alleged that the college had granted extra attendance to certain students arbitrarily.
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has pulled up a law student for making "reckless and irresponsible" statements while challenging a university's decision to bar her from appearing for final exams due to poor attendance, observing that justice does not mean "whatever I want and howsoever I put it".
The Aurangabad bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Ajit Kadethankar dismissed the 23-year-old's plea, noting that her attempts to overcome her own faults through false claims constituted an "abuse of process" that could jeopardise her career in the legal profession.
The court, in its judgment dated June 18, noted that any cause taken up before the courts of law must be bona fide.
"Every proceeding before a court is to seek justice; but the concept of 'justice' doesn't mean 'whatever I want and howsoever I put it'," the court said.
The petitioner, a postgraduate student at the Maharashtra National Law University in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, had challenged the institution’s decision to bar her from appearing for her final semester examinations for failing to meet the mandatory 75 per cent attendance requirement.
After a single bench dismissed her initial plea in April, she filed a review petition seeking a direction for the University to conduct a special examination.
The student, in her plea, claimed there...
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