India, June 19 -- Granting no relief to a third-year Bachelor of Science student who was debarred from her sixth and final semester examination due to insufficient attendance, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed her petition, observing that any judicial direction relaxing attendance requirements in an individual case would necessarily have implications beyond that case, since attendance regulations apply uniformly to all students.

The student, enrolled in a suburban college, had claimed that she had missed her classes on account of a "clinically significant psychiatric condition/ personality disorder", with symptoms like psychological distress, impaired emotional regulation, stress intolerance, and an inability to sustain goal-dir...