The Madras High Court Bench here has upheld the expulsion of a third-year economics student from a college for having consumed alcohol on a Sunday and observed that educational institutions have every right to expel students on charge of indiscipline .
Dismissing a petition filed by the expelled student of Vivekananda College at Thiruvedagam near here, Justice S. Vaidyanathan said that “the younger generation should concentrate on their studies rather than spending time in an extravagant manner, especially when their duty towards the nation is inevitable, precious and unavoidable.”
Stating that the petitioner should not have consumed alcohol despite being part of a residential college which imparted ‘Gurukula’ pattern of education where importance was given to a disciplined life, the judge quoted Swami Vivekananda to have said that the mind would “run away” from the control of those who consumed alcohol.
“In this case, the main contention of the third respondent (college principal) that if the rules and regulations are relaxed and diluted to suit the convenience of an individual student, then the future of the Gurukula institute will be at peril cannot be brushed aside… Therefore, the expulsion order passed by the principal does not warrant any interference by this court,” he added.
