India, March 17 -- The Bombay High Court has directed the University of Mumbai (MU) to immediately release the final-year marksheet and degree certificate of a law graduate, holding that a student cannot be made to suffer for lapses by educational institutions.

A division bench of justices RI Chagla and Advait M Sethna was hearing a petition filed by MU student Saurabh Gutte seeking the release of his final-year LLB marksheet and degree certificate, which the university had withheld due to certain lapses during his transfer between colleges.

Gutte had completed the first year of his LLB course at the MP Law College in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar before transferring to the MU-affiliated IBSAR School of Law in Navi Mumbai in 2021-22. He the...