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Tuesday, Jul 06, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Court seeks details of entrance examination ranking

By A. Subramani

Photo: S.R. Raghunathan

Lawyers taking exception to parents appearing on behalf of students, seeking medical admission, in the Madras High Court in Chennai on Monday.

CHENNAI, JULY 5. The latest round of litigation over medical admissions this year is likely to be a protracted one, with the Madras High Court today calling for details of marks and ranks and the manner in which any issue of equal marks/ranks was decided.

There are two major batches of writ petitions: one appealing against a single judge order on `22 disputed questions case'; the other relating to writ pleas against treating marks scored by `improvement candidates' on a par with those obtained by regular Plus-Two students. Despite the "suspension of work" by advocates, a large number of students and parents was in court when the matter came up before the First Bench comprising the Chief Justice, B. Subhashan Reddy, and Justice Prabha Sridevan.

After the Advocate-General, N.R. Chandran, and a couple of parents made their submissions, the Bench asked the Government to furnish details of marks and ranks, both before and after Justice P.K. Misra's order in the "22 disputed questions case." It also wanted the Government to explain how the issue was handled if two candidates, from the regular and improvement streams, scored same marks and secured the same rank. The Bench then posted the matter to Tuesday. Earlier, just as two girls last Thursday appeared parties-in-person and argued their case, two persons — Rajkumar and Govindasamy — made their submissions on behalf of their wards. While Mr. Rajkumar contended that two provisions on eligibility of students were inherently contradictory, Mr. Govindasamy, arguing in Tamil, said improvement candidates need not sit for practical examination and that they could write the entrance examination separately.

Lawyers assault parent

Parents answering queries from mediapersons suffered a shock when a couple of junior advocates assaulted a parent. Even as his distraught daughter was looking on, the lawyers, taking exception to parents appearing in courts and the mediapersons interviewing them, punched the middle-aged man in the face, resulting in his spectacles falling.

Earlier, during arguments, the Chief Justice cautioned parties-in-person against wasting the court's time.

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