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Apex court declines plea against Delhi varsity
semester system
Monday May 30, 2011 09:27:23 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Monday declined to entertain a petition seeking a stay on a
Delhi University notification introducing the semester system for
under-graduate courses in various disciplines from the coming
academic year.
The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K.
Prasad said: "We are not inclined to stay the notification."
Justice Singhvi told senior counsel Jayant Bhushan, appearing for
petitioner lecturers, that if there was anything improper with the
notification, University Chancellor and President Pratibha Patil
could set it right.
"The chancellor, upon satisfaction, can overrule any one including
the vice-chancellor. We can't interfere at this stage," said
Justice Singhvi.
With the apex court refusing to stay the April 28 interim order of
the Delhi High Court by which it had refused to stay the semester
system's introduction, Bhushan pleaded for the withdrawal of the
petition.
Chiding the lecturers for going on strike, Justice Prasad said
that "on one hand, you file a writ petition in the high court and
on the other hand you resort to strike... This cannot be
accepted."
He asked as to how many students were supporting the agitating
teachers. Upon being told that 3,000 students had represented
against the semester system, Justice Prasad asked then why no
student had come to court.
The lecturers, resisting the introduction of the semester system
for over a year now, challenged the interim order of the high
court by which it restrained them from opposing the system by
taking recourse to protest and demonstration.
Bhushan earlier described the notification introducing the
semester system as "arbitrary, illegal and one that was introduced
without proper application of mind".
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