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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

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Directive on Yogam board meeting

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JULY 22. The Kerala High Court today ordered that no SNDP Yogam director board members could be denied entry into the venue of the board meeting on the ground that they did not carry a copy of the notice for the board meeting to be held on July 23.

Justice K. Padmanabhan Nair made the observation while hearing a writ petition filed by V.K. Chitharanjan who is a director board member of the Yogam. The court said that it was open to the petitioner to approach the Superintendent of Police (SP), Alappuzha, and file an application for police protection to attend the meeting. The court said that the SP would pass appropriate orders on the application.

According to the petitioner, the notice for the board meeting had not been served on all the director board members, including the petitioner. In fact, it had been specified in the footnote of the notice that entry into the hall where the meeting was scheduled to be held would be allowed only on production of the notice. The petitioner said that this was done to prevent some members from attending the meeting.

Writ plea dismissed

A High Court Bench comprising Justice K.A. Abdul Gafoor and Justice P.R. Raman dismissed at the admission stage a writ petition against the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi's announcement of Rs. 1 crore being sanctioned by the Central Government for the parents of children who were killed in the fire at a private school in Kumbakonam.

Dismissing the petition, the Bench observed, "the nation is still weeping over the catastrophe". The tragedy could not be cashed in on for political reasons and publicity. Besides, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the petition.

Nursing college issue

Justice K. Balakrishnan Nair has directed the management of Lissie College of Nursing in Kochi to permit the nine students admitted last year in the Government quota to attend classes on their executing a bank guarantee for the fees demanded by the college authorities.

The directive came on a writ petition filed by Cine Francis and other eight second-year students of B.Sc. Nursing.

According to them, they needed to pay only Rs. 9,090 as fee as per the fee fixed by the State Government in the new legislation on self-financing colleges.

However, the management had demanded Rs. 36,700. As they could not pay the amount, they were restrained from attending classes.

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