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Plea to stop self-financing college admission

Staff Reporter

HIGH COURTROUND-UP

KOCHI: A writ petition was filed before the Kerala High Court seeking to restrain the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association from proceeding with the admission of students to colleges under the association on the basis of the entrance test conducted by it for the year 2005.

In its petition, the All India Save Education Committee also sought a directive to the association to fill the management quota from the rank-list prepared on the basis of the common entrance test.

According to the petitioner, as per the ruling of the Supreme Court, the rights of selection could not be left to the discretion of any individual management. Managements had declared that they would have a say in the selection of candidates.

Church case

The Government informed the Court that the lock of St. Peter and St. Paul Syrian Orthodox Church, Kolenchery, was broken in order to prevent

breach of peace and disruption of law and order.

The affidavit filed by M.I. Francis, Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), Muvattupzha, pointed out that it had been decided at a meeting convened by the Ernakulam District Collector that the church would be opened on July 11 for cleaning and on July 12 for holy mass by the Orthodox and Patriarch factions according to the timings fixed by the Collector.

B.Ed. case

Justice M. Sasidharan Nambiar on Thursday stayed the proceedings pending before the Kozhikode Vigilance Court in a case relating to demand of money for sanctioning a B.Ed. college, from the Metropolitan of the Malabar Jacobite Orthodox Syrian Church, Bishop Yuhannon Mar Philixinos.

The order came on a petition filed by N. Mamooty and another person.

Petition for signboards

A Bench adjourned for two weeks the hearing of a writ petition seeking a direction to the authorities to install signal and signboards on roads. According to the petitioner, M.J. Mathew, the absence of signboards resulted in major road accidents in the city.

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