The good thing for him is that the university is now not thinking of going to court.

Chitkara sponsored a students’ body in Panjab University and had got printed a stock of 40,000 booklets which had the information otherwise available in the university prospectus. These booklets were provided free of cost to the students seeking admission to PU.

Reacting to the decline in the sale of the prospectuses, which were being sold for Rs 400 each, Prof Sobti constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Prof S K Kulkarni, Dean University Instructions.

Talking to Newsline, Mohit Chitkara said: “I was trying to do a noble cause. I had no intention to violate any act or law. After I was conveyed by PU that I committed a violation, I destroyed the rest of the stock and also sent a written apology to the V-C.”

PU sources said the committee was to serve a legal notice to Chitkara, but as he apologised before hand the proceedings were halted.

The university has, however, not claimed any copyright for publishing the prospectus.

Prof S K Kulkarni said: “Though we haven’t applied as such for the copyright, according to our university calendar all that we publish is our property. No legal notice was served to Chitkara as the matter got resolved.”

The students, however, think it was very “rude” on part of the university to stop Chitkara from helping them.

Nitin Goyal, president of the National Students Union of India, said: “Printing a booklet containing information from the prospectus is very common in universities like those in Delhi. It was an absolute noble cause and the university should not have stopped Chitkara.”