new delhi the delhi high court on friday directed the delhi university and st stephens college to permit a student who has applied for admission under the sports quota to provisionally participate in sports trials commencing from june 18justice c hari shankar also sought response of the university and the college on the petition and listed it for hearing on july 3respondents du and college are directed to permit the petitioner student to provisionally participate in trials commencing from june 18 in a2 category participation of the petitioner in trial is entirely at her risk and shall remain subject to outcome of this petition the court saidwhile the counsel for du sought time to respond to the plea no one appeared for the college despite advance service of the petitionthe plea filed by vanshika sachar who plays table tennis claimed that at the time of awarding marks on basis of certificates for admission on her past performance the colleges sports department and du did not consider her performance of silver medal in pacific school games in australia in 2015advocates sandeep banga and rajeev kapoor appearing for the student said she was a team member of school games federation of india sgfi and the authorities also did not consider her participation certificate in asian school games tournament at singapore in 2016 as team member of sgfithey said this act of the authorities has resulted her being placed in b1 category participation on national level and awarding her 27 marks whereas on the basis of international performance and participation she was entitled to 38 marks and placed in a2 category participation in international tournament the counsel said that the student has secured 88 per cent in class 12th and she has applied for admission in english hons and economics hons in st stephens collegeout of 100 40 marks are given for previous sports certificates and 60 are for the trials it saidthe plea claimed that no formal letter had been issued to the student and the authorities had verbally communicated that they do not recognise certificate of performance where the certificates have been issued by sgfi or player has participated as its team memberit said that sgfi has been recognised for financial aid by ministry of youth and sports affairs and the name of sgfi figures in the list of national sports federationsit sought direction to the varsity and college that the students certificates of performance as team member of sgfi at tournaments abroad be consideredthe plea sought that she be awarded marks for silver medal by placing her in a2 category and allowed to participate in trials on june 18 on the basis of her marks in a2 category