Inappropriateness of relegating litigants to civil courts in undisputed facts

establishes that constitutional courts ought not to turn away aggrieved petitioners on grounds of alternative remedies when the underlying factual controversies stand unequivocally conceded or resolved. While writ courts typically abstain from adjudicating complex, disputed questions of fact, that self-imposed restraint dissolves entirely once the contesting educational authorities submit sworn affidavits affirming admissions of fact and clerical mistakes. Shunting an innocent student to protracted civil litigation after lengthy proceedings where no factual ambiguity remains constitutes an unjustified abdication of judicial review. (Pratima Das Vs State of Himachal Pradesh and Ors. | 2026 INSC 13)