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When a candidate states honestly his marks in the details but makes a dishonest declaration at the end of the application about his true marks, the college cannot be hauled up for throwing out the candidate midway through the course.
In Priyadarshini College of Computer Science and Another vs. Manish Kumar and Others, the Apex court rejected the verdict of the High Court asking the college to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the candidate for throwing him out midway through on the ground that it could have easily called his bluff had it scrutinised the application thoroughly instead of just skimming through the declaration portion at the end.
The Apex court pointed out that the candidate was clearly guilty of dishonesty when he stated in the declaration that he had secured the minimum 60 per cent marks in his B.Sc Maths and thus made the grade for lateral entry at the stage of third semester to the B.Tech degree offered by the appellant-college.
That he had disclosed honestly his true 56 per cent marks in the body of the application did not lessen his guilt.
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