High Court reprieve for PU students with attendance shortage

The High Court on Monday sought to know why a college should allow students to write exams if they do not have required attendance.

Justice B V Nagarathna, while hearing a petition filed by 14 students of II year PU students of Sindhi College, Hebbal, who were denied admission tickets due to shortage of attendance, asked the students on how they could write the exams without attending the classes.  
While granting the interim prayer to attend the exams, the court stated that attendance register of those students who have approached the court be submitted to the court in the next hearing.

 The bench said that the final order would be subjected to the result of the writ petition and adjourned the next hearing to April 1, 2015.

The State government in its order dated March 12,2015, had refused to allow the afore mentioned students to sit for exams, due to the lack of required attendance.

The order stated that the students had attacked the principal of the college after they were denied admission tickets on March 11, a day before the commencement of the examinations. The students and their parents damaged the college furniture. Following the incident, admission tickets were issued to the students and they appeared for the examination held on March 12.

The order further stated that shortage of attendance was notified on the college notice board each month and the matter brought to the notice of their parents through SMSes. The director of the Department of Pre-University Education had asked the college principal not to allow the students to write the exams. Accordingly, the students were not allowed to write the second examination.

During the hearing, the bench asked the parents present before the court how they could tell their children to have the moral authority to write the exams without having necessary attendance.