Varsities told to decide on holding arrear exams
Amid another bout of interruption caused by the students resorting to live streaming court proceedings on YouTube ahead of the hearing into pleas challenging the cancellation of arrear exams, the Madras High Court on Tuesday warned the students of stringent action and left the choice of holding the arrear exams either through online or offline or through both to the universities.
By : migrator
Update: 2020-12-01 19:59 GMT
Chennai
Observing that the universities are autonomous bodies and they have to abide by the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines, the division bench comprising Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice R Hemalatha noted that the government should permit universities to conduct arrear examinations and cannot bind them through the Government Order (GO) cancelling the arrear exams.
In a hearing that was marred by a cacophony of sorts with advocates appearing for and against the cancellation of arrear exams, the bench at one stage sought the court staff to mute the mike of all the advocates. The bench, while making it clear that the present scheme of video conferencing is being misused by the students, said contempt action was bound to come forth against them for disrupting court proceedings.
The bench directed the hearing of all cases through a physical hearing on January 11 despite advocates seeking for a short date. However, the bench, on taking up the plea relating to Madras University and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University declaring results, granted an interim stay if the results were declared in contravention of the clause six of the UGC guidelines. It held that no results can be declared without holding the exams or any evaluation process being in place.
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