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
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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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