SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS WPMS No.625 of 2026 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Dr. Kartikey Hari Gupta and Mr. Rafat Munir Ali, learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. Mr. B.S. Koranga, learned B.H. for the State. 3. Mr. Sahil Mullick, learned counsel for the respondent nos.1 to 4. 4. Misc. Application (IA No.3 of 2026) is allowed. Counter affidavit filed on behalf of respondent nos.1 to 4 is taken on record. 5. The petitioner was pursuing B.B.A. Course 2024-27 with the respondent-University. During examination of the IIIrd Semester on 11.12.2025, petitioner’s younger brother was found present in the campus of the respondent- University. According to the respondent-University the younger brother of the petitioner was caught using a mobile phone in the washroom and he was having the question paper of the IIIrd Semester Examination of the on-going exam. 6. It was apprehension of the respondent-University that he was about to get answer of the question paper from mobile phone using A.I. and there was intention on the part of the petitioner to commit cheating. 7. It is only acting thereupon after confidential inquiry the impugned order dated 06.01.2026 was passed and the petitioner was expelled from the respondent-University with immediate effect. 8. The petitioner submits that the petitioner as well as his parents submitted the written apology to the respondent- 2 University, but despite that expulsion order was passed. 9. According to learned counsel for the petitioner, it is admitted case of the respondent-University that only intention was there to commit cheating rather no cheating actually took place, therefore, the punishment imposed upon the petitioner is very severe and harsh which is totally disproportionate with the charge levelled against the petitioner. 10. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the record of the writ petition, it is not disputed that no cheating took place. 11. In the opinion of this Court too in the aforesaid background the punishment of expulsion of the petitioner from the respondent-University appears to be very harsh and the same requires to be interfered with. 12. Accordingly writ petition is allowed. The expulsion order dated 06.01.2026, passed by respondent no.3-Deputy Chief Proctor is hereby set aside. The respondent-University may impose minor punishment, if any, prescribed in the Regulations Governing Maintenance of Discipline amongst Students, 2009 (amended in 2010). (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 02.06.2026 SK