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No unnecessary sympathies in admission: court

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that students who get admission in educational institutions without the requisite eligibility cannot be shown ‘unnecessary sympathies’ and allowed to appear in examinations.

“It is once again, a judgment that has come from the High Court in complete derogation of the observations of this court against compromising educational standards in the matter of admissions to a particular course by showing unnecessary sympathies,” the apex court observed.

A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhan and V.S. Sirpurkar passed the observation while quashing a judgment of a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court which had directed Mahatma Gandhi University to declare the result of a girl student, Gis Jose, though she did not fulfil the admission eligibility criteria.

The university, on the basis of the Academic Council’s recommendations, withheld the results of Gis who was pursuing her M.Sc. Computer in BPC College, Piravom. The result was withheld on the ground that the student had obtained only 53.3 per cent marks in her qualifying examination as against the cut-off mark of 55. Despite her not qualifying in the admission process, the college Principal granted her admission and permitted her to appear for five semesters. But when the matter was detected, the university withheld the result. The aggrieved student filed a writ petition in the High Court but a single judge dismissed her plea. A Division Bench directed the university to announce the result on humanitarian grounds. The university appealed against the order. The apex court noted that the High Court had directed to announce the result despite the fact that the Division Bench had observed that “such irregular admissions were likely to pave the way for foul play in the hands of unscrupulous college management.” — PTI

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