RAWALPINDI, Nov 18: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday directed the vice-chancellor of Fatima Jinnah Women University to appear in the court on November 21 in a petition filed by a student against directives to reappear in a semester exam.
Justice Fazl-i-Miran Chauhan directed the assistant advocate general to ensure the VC’s presence in the court during the next hearing to answer why comments were not filed in the case and some documents submitted by the university showed discrepancies.
The student of defence studies, whose lawyer requested not to publish her name, has challenged the directives of the university asking her to take fresh admission to the third semester that she claimed she had already passed with the required GPA (grand points attained).
She said the university told her that she could not attain the required GPA in the third semester except in one subject and would have to repeat the module. However, she claimed that her course coordinator had told her that she would not need to reappear in the cleared subject.
Later, her result of the repeated attempt also showed that she had again failed in getting the required GPA and was shown absent in the subject she had already passed.
However, her counsel Malik Javad Khalid told Dawn that her result card for the third semester submitted by the university to the court showed that she was ‘never unable’ to attain the required GPA. He said the result card surprised the court which directed the VC to appear in person.
Separately, Justice M. A. Zafar directed the AAG to contact the office of the Punjab University chancellor to know why no decision had been taken on the appeal of a female student against declaration of her BA result card as bogus even after the passage of three months.
Sadaf Murtaza, a resident of Rawalpindi, in her petition maintained that she passed her BA examination in 2005 in second attempt. The university issued her a result card declaring her pass. But when she sought the degree to proceed to the UK in 2007, the university termed the result card bogus. The UK mission also declared the result card as fake and later the FIA registered a criminal case against her.
She prayed the court to declare the university orders terming her result card as bogus unlawful and direct the PU to issue her degree and quash the criminal case against her.