Overview
- A vacation bench of Justices Gautam Ankhad and Sandesh Patil, ruling Monday, allowed 751 Savitribai Phule Pune University engineering students to submit forms and sit third- and fourth-year exams starting May 20.
- The court ordered colleges and the university to verify marksheets and eligibility within 24 hours to ensure no eligible student is turned away.
- The dispute centers on a 2025 state order and SPPU Circular No. 209 that let students move up a year despite backlogs, after which these students attended classes and cleared those backlogs in October 2025.
- SPPU’s April 10 and May 5 circulars deferred exams for provisionally admitted students until the High Court decided related cases, leading the 751 students to petition on May 13 after being denied permission to fill forms.
- Their exam attempt and any results remain subject to the final outcome of the pending writ, with the main challenges to the policy scheduled for hearings in June.