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Court admits SFI, DYFI pleas

Staff Reporter

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Kochi: Justice S. Siri Jagan of the Kerala High Court has admitted the petitions filed by the Students Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) seeking to implead them in the writ petitions challenging the law relating to the regulation of the admission and fees in the self-financing professional colleges. The Judge dismissed the petition filed by the Hindu Aikya Vedi, All Kerala Private College Teachers Association, Kerala Vidhyabhyasa Samithi and others to implead in the case. Meanwhile, the Kerala Students Union (KSU) has filed a petition before the court to implead in the case. The court mentioned that it could pass interim orders only after going through the legal provisions and the Supreme Court judgment in the case.

Plea against TDB

A Division Bench on Friday admitted a writ petition seeking to restrain the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) from executing any work pursuant to the `devaprasanam' without calling for a proper feasibility report from the experts. The Bench comprising Chief Justice V.K. Bali and Justice M. Ramachandran while admitting the petition ordered that the petition be posted along with the petitions already pending before the court. In his petition, Jayaprakash Bhakth of Kayamkulam said that the TDB president had reportedly said that the remedial works would be undertaken only after the term of the present Tantri was over. The recommendation made during the `devaprasanam' included setting up a ropeway in Sabarimala. The petitioner accused the Board of trying to award the works of building ropeway to the company, which had sponsored the `devaprasanam.'

Directive to Secretary

The Bench also directed the Secretary, Health Department, to take necessary action for inquiring into the functioning of the unauthorised paramedical and nursing schools in the State.

The directive came on a writ petition filed by the Azhimathi Virudha Munnani (Anti-Corruption Organisation). The petitioner complained about the inaction of the authorities concerned about the functioning of unauthorised paramedical institutions and nursing schools. The teachers in these schools did not have any qualification. These institutions were giving certificates even to persons who had failed in SSLC.

Suspension quashed

Justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair held that Mahatma Gandhi University's order suspending two nursing students of the School of Medical Education, Kottayam, in connection with the ragging of a girl student was unauthorised and arbitrary. The Judge while allowing the petition filed by Alpha Jose and Bincia Mohammed observed that as per Section 6 of the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Act, a student could be suspended only on the basis of a written complaint filed by the victim or victim's parents or guardian or teacher against that student. Nobody had filed a complaint before the university against these petitioners. So, in the absence of the complaint, the university action in suspending the petitioners was arbitrary.

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