The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Monday held Delhi College responsible of committing “wilful disobedience” in a contempt plea moved by St Stephen’s School for not adhering to the instructions issued by the court docket. It additionally directed the registrar and dean of admissions of the DU to look earlier than the court docket to point out trigger why they shouldn’t be punished.
In an order of April 22, 2024, a single-judge bench directed that the DU would be sure that the allocation/allotment of postgraduate seats in St Stephen’s School “shouldn’t be disproportionate”. St Stephen’s School moved the excessive court docket then with a contempt plea, submitting that “regardless of instructions contained within the judgement dated 22.04.2024, the allocation of seats haven’t been correctly made even for the educational 12 months 2024-25.
It identified that “the DU has once more allotted extraordinarily low variety of seats” to St Stephen’s School compared to the opposite faculties. The faculty submitted earlier than the court docket that the record of candidates belonging to the minority Christian neighborhood, which has been forwarded to the DU, “has not been thought-about and never given admission in varied PG programs”.
The court docket of Justice Dharmesh Sharma, whereas holding the DU responsible of wilful disobedience, recorded, “…unhesitatingly, this court docket is of the opinion that the involved officers of the respondent DU whereas settling their private grouses with the administration of the petitioner-college, are in nearly taking part in with the lifetime of the scholars, which motion or deliberate omission is neither acceptable nor sustainable in legislation.”
“The respondents are miserably failing to point out trigger as to what steps they’ve taken up to now to facilitate the admission of the chosen college students by the petitioner-college in getting admission in PG programs. At the price of repetition, inordinate delay on the a part of the respondents shall trigger irreparable hurt to the chosen college students. It’s disappointing to see lecturers of reputation displaying such insensitivity,” the excessive court docket stated.
Discovering the DU responsible “of committing wilful disobedience within the nature intentionally stalling the implementation of the instructions of this court docket”, the court docket directed the registrar and the dean of admissions of the DU to look earlier than the court docket, by way of video conferencing at 2.30 pm on October 15 “and present trigger why they shouldn’t be punished in accordance with the legislation”.
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