Chandigarh, Nov. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has said that for the political or electoral aspirations of some people, the academic activity of an institution can't be sacrificed.

"This court reminds the students that their admission to the university by their parents is fundamentally for the purpose of receiving education and thus the prime focus of all students should remain acquisition of knowledge. Academic activities cannot be compromised or sacrificed at the altar of electoral or political aspirations," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said while disposing of a plea seeking HC's intervention and seeking notification for senate polls at Panjab University.

The plea was disposed of on Friday a...