The Patna High Court in All India Students Federation vs. State of Bihar, has observed that lack of adequate attendance must not be read as exclusive circumstance for debarring a student from taking his examinations and only when it is coupled with other circumstances, showing a general derelict behaviour, may be proper reason for debarring. The Court also directed the Principal of Patna Women’s College and Vice Chancellor of Patna University to condone the attendance shortage of all those students, who have inadequate attendance to the extent of 60%. These directions were issued by a Division Bench comprising of the Chief Justice I. A. Ansari and Justice Anjana Mishra on a writ petition by All India Students Federation. The Students Federation had alleged improper exercise of discretion by the Principal of the college in the matter of condoning the attendance shortage and usurping the jurisdiction vested in the Vice Chancellor by the Principal by deciding the condonation applications ...