India, Feb. 22 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed a first-year law student, who was allegedly forcibly removed from his examination hall due to low attendance, to appear for his remaining semester exams, holding that the college failed to follow the prescribed procedure before debarring him.

A division bench of justices RI Chagla and Advait Sethna permitted the student, Vinayak Thorat, to continue with his first semester examinations after observing that "the arbitrary action of the respondent college (Karnataka Lingayat Education Society's College of Law) is in violation of the settled law as well as being violative of constitutional rights and principles of natural justice."

Thorat had approached the high court earlier in F...