A press meet at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (Ludhiana), a premier top ranked state veterinary university in India, cleared the air regarding the attempts made to malign the image of the university by Mr. Ajaydeep Singh Khosa. He was an NRI student in the third professional year of Bachelor of Veterinary and Animal Husbandry (BVSc & AH) degree course. Press conference was addressed by Dr. Inderjeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor, GADVASU, Dr. SPS Ghuman, Dean, College of Veterinary Science and officers of the university. Mr. Khosa had alleged that the university had deliberately failed him. The university authorities said that multiple examinations, by internal as well external examiners, at various time points were held during the period starting from Feb 1, 2021 till August 6, 2021 as per Veterinary Council of India (VCI) Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education Regulations, 2016.
Mr. Khosa was not able to clear a course in the regular exams, for which he was granted compartment exam, which he was again unable to clear. Considering Covid scenario, a special permission was given by the university to Mr. Khosa to appear in re-compartment (mercy chance). However, due to a casual approach towards studies, he again was unable to clear the course. Subsequently, Mr. Khosa filed the case in Punjab and Haryana High Court, however, single bench followed by double bench dismissed the case in December 2021, saying that ‘appeal is devoid of merit’ and the bench ‘did not find any substance therein which could substantiate the contentions as have been projected by the appellants’. Following the decision of the court, Mr. Khosa refused to follow the VCI procedure to continue studies by doing registration in third professional year, but started using tricks and started to pressurize the university authorities to get his third professional year cleared without following the rules and regulations laid by Govt. of India through VCI for BVSc & AH degree course.
