GLC students move HC over admission plight

Updated on: Thursday, July 21, 2011

Students of Government Law College (GLC) at Churchgate whose admissions were cancelled have moved the high court to highlight their plight.

The HC on July 14 termed the entire process ‘illegal’ and ordered the college to rework the admissions. The institute accepted in court that it was their fault and following the HC order, is supposed to submit a fresh common merit list on Thursday.

While one group filed an intervention application on Tuesday, at least three more students will submit their pleas on Wednesday. Though all the petitioners’ aim is to get their seats back in the college, they have filed pleas with different agenda. On one hand, 25 students from the Maharashtra State Board of Education have urged the court to retain the rule of slashing 5% of the scores of other board students while granting them admissions so that they themselves did not lose out on seats in the new common merit list. On the other hand, the other group does not want the college to come up with a common list but to grant them admissions in the three separate streams of arts, science and commerce. R N Singh, parents of one of the students and an advocate from Lucknow, said, “My daughter and a few other students plan to move court tomorrow. We hope that the court would consider their pleas.”

The matter will come up for hearing on Thursday. “We have to produce the common merit list, combining all the three streams, in court on Thursday. We are in the process of compiling it. Students will know the fresh cut-offs on Thursday,” said an official from the college. The institute, on Friday, also said it would apply for a new division to the higher and technical education department and the Mumbai University to which the college is affiliated.

Students and parents got agitated all the more after reading the copy of the court order, where the college has admitted to its fault. While 207 had been granted admissions, 33 were to secure their seats on the day the court stayed the admission process. Anil Tandon, the parent of a student, said, “The college has admitted to its fault and started reworking on the admission process. How could they be so irresponsible? We are now appealing in court, asking it to allow the old process to be implemented, at least for this year, as the admissions were already over and the students had taken seats here after cancelling them elsewhere.”

GLC students move HC over admission plight

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