Semester-IV class for the academic year 2015-16 and has appeared for Business Law Paper II examination, which was conducted on 12.03.2016. According to him, after the examination was over, in a personal search of all the students, mobile phones were found on the person of 12 students, including the petitioner, which came to be confiscated. On 02.04.2016, the petitioner along with his father remained present before the College Committee wherein it was alleged that the petitioner has indulged in copying through the mobile phone. In the said meeting, the petitioner was given an option that if at all he intended to continue his studies in the said college and to seek leniency in the matter, then he should admit in writing that during the course of aforesaid examination, he had copied an answer using his mobile phone and in addition thereto, the petitioner should also pay a fine of Rs.500/-, which shall be imposed on him for carrying a mobile phone into the examination hall. The petitioner was also assured by the College Committee that in the event he complies with the aforesaid conditions, an arrangement would be worked out, whereby although in the final mark sheet he would be shown as having failed the Business Law Paper-II examination, he would nevertheless be permitted to take admission in the Third Year B. Com. class under the ATKT Regulations. On the basis of this assurance, the petitioner gave in writing admitting that he had copied an answer using his mobile phone.
