India, June 29 -- The Bombay High Court has pulled up a law student for making "reckless and irresponsible" statements while challenging a university's decision to bar her from appearing for final exams due to poor attendance, observing that justice does not mean "whatever I want and howsoever I put it". The Aurangabad bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Ajit Kadethankar dismissed the 23-year-old's plea, noting that her attempts to overcome her own faults through false claims constituted an "abuse of process" that could jeopardise her career in the legal profession. The court, in its judgment dated June 18, noted that any cause taken up before the courts of law must be bona fide.

"Every proceeding before a court is to seek justice; bu...