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High Court hopes colleges will maintain discipline

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Monday said it only hopes and expects that the authorities take serious note of indiscipline prevailing in various law colleges.

Disposing of a petition by advocate T.P.Senthilkumar, seeking a direction to the authorities to restrain law students from joining caste-based organisations and political groups, the First Bench comprising Chief Justice A.K.Ganguly and Justice F.M.Ibrahim Kalifulla observed that law college authorities should ensure that proper discipline was maintained in the institutions.

The Bench said no particulars had been given in the petition as to which caste-organisation the students had joined or which political group the students had associated themselves with.

Apart from that, it was difficult for the court to pass any direction or grant injunction restraining an individual’s liberty to join any organisation or political group on the basis of such a vague petition. It was, of course, true that law college authorities should ensure that discipline was maintained, it said.

It was difficult for the court to pass any blanket order in the absence of a case being made out.

The court said none of the law college authorities had been impleaded; but for the betterment of the environment in law colleges, which was very vital for improving legal education, the court was making the observation.

J.Saravanan of Vadakandam in Kudavasal taluk in Thiruvarur district on Monday filed a habeas corpus petition seeking a direction to the police to produce his father, R.Jagannathan, sister J.Akila and cousin Alagarsamy, who were illegally detained in the Kudavasal police station, before the court and set them at liberty.

In the petition filed by counsel P.Vijendran and P.Pugalenthi, Mr.Saravanan alleged that the three had been illegally detained by the police to know the whereabouts of his brother V.J.Raja, who was doing III year B.L. in the law college here.

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