Delhi High Court summons DU registrar, admission dean in contempt plea by St Stephen’s College

It pointed retired that “the DU has again allocated highly debased fig of seats” to St Stephen’s College successful examination to the different colleges. The assemblage submitted earlier the tribunal that the database of candidates belonging to the number Christian community, which has been forwarded to the DU, “has not been considered and not fixed admittance successful assorted PG courses”.

The tribunal of Justice Dharmesh Sharma, portion holding the DU blameworthy of wilful disobedience, recorded, “…unhesitatingly, this tribunal is of the sentiment that the acrophobic officials of the responsive DU portion settling their idiosyncratic grouses with the absorption of the petitioner-college, are successful virtually playing with the beingness of the students, which enactment oregon deliberate omission is neither acceptable nor sustainable successful law.”

“The respondents are miserably failing to amusement origin arsenic to what steps they person taken truthful acold to facilitate the admittance of the selected students by the petitioner-college successful getting admittance successful PG courses. At the outgo of repetition, inordinate hold connected the portion of the respondents shall origin irreparable harm to the selected students. It is disappointing to spot academics of repute displaying specified insensitivity,” the precocious tribunal said.

Finding the DU blameworthy “of committing wilful disobedience successful the quality deliberately stalling the implementation of the directions of this court”, the tribunal directed the registrar and the dean of admissions of the DU to look earlier the court, done video conferencing astatine 2.30 p.m. connected October 15 “and amusement origin wherefore they should not beryllium punished successful accordance with the law”.