Wajeha Urooj 2001 Punjab University MA English student who was declared as a failure by the university in the final result because she was absent in one paper.
Wajeha Urooj 2001 Punjab University MA English student who was declared as a failure by the university in the final result because she was absent in one paper.
This was surprising as well as very disturbing for Wajeeha Uroog as she had appeared in all the papers and solved all the papers well. She felt that perhaps the university had made a mistake. She reached the examination department with her father and put her case before the concerned officer. Instead of investigating or giving relief, she addressed Wajiha's father and said, "What do you know? Where did the daughter go on the pretext of the exam?
This sentence fell like a bomb on the head of Wajiha and her father and they remained as if they were deaf. The university refused to admit the mistake and issue the degree. The talk was done in front of everyone in the office and soon it spread in the university and every eye started to consider Wajiha as wrong and the university as right.
Wajiha's life became like that of a thief. By doing nothing, she remained suspicious and sinful in the eyes of her own family and society.
He decided to approach the court and filed a case against the university.
It was a case of two to three appearances that the court would decide by calling for the attendance sheet of the students appearing in that paper and the record of the distributed and returned papers.
But the case grew longer like the bowels of the devil.
Zabiya got married and shifted to Canada, had two children, the case continued.
Finally, after 17 years, in 2017, the Lahore High Court declared the Punjab University guilty and ordered it to issue a degree to Wajiha Urooj and pay eight lakh rupees as damages.
In an interview with the BBC, Wajiha expressed his sadness and said that
Today that degree is of no use to me. Seventeen years ago, she wanted to do a PhD after her Masters. She wanted to live her life on her own account, all her plans and dreams were shattered.
She had spent more than 800,000 times on this case in these seventeen years so that the university could prove the slander against her and make headlines. She has been killed by that one sentence every day for seventeen years.
Therefore, this decision of the court cannot be called justice
Moses too
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