Madras HC quashes October 2009 order of Tamil Nadu government on Loyola college

Updated on: Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Madras high court has quashed a October 2009 order of Tamil Nadu government which restricted the status of city-based Loyola College (Autonomous) as a minority education institution to a limited period of five years from 2007 to 2012.

Allowing a petition by the college, Justice N Paul Vasanth Kumar said the status of minority educational institution given to Loyola College in 2009 was valid without any restriction.

The college secretary in his petition had prayed for the court's direction to quash the Tamil Nadu Higher Education Secretary's impugned order of October 8, 2009.

The petition challenged the impugned order contending that there was no change in the constitution of the educational society which runs the college and its objects.

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