Section 4A(3) in Banaras Hindu University Act, 1915
(3)to hold examinations and to grant diplomas and certificates, and confer degrees and other academic distinctions to and on persons who-(a)who shall have pursued a course of study in the University, or in a college and passed the examination or who shall have carried on research work in the manner prescribed by the Ordinances, or(b)who are teachers of the University or any college under conditions laid down in the Statutes and the Ordinances, and shall have passed the examinations of the University under like conditions, or(c)who, being women, shall have pursued a course of private study in subjects provided for by the Ordinances and shall have passed the examinations of the University under conditions laid down in the Ordinances;]
