Mehta, a third-year Philosophy student and editor of the banned e-zine, on Wednesday was suspended till April 23 after a one-man inquiry committee appointed by the principal found him guilty of violating disciplinary norms of the college.
The Delhi High Court has stayed the suspension of Devansh Mehta, student of St Stephen's college who was barred from attending classes for launching an online magazine.
On Thursday, the editor of a student e-zine, Mehta, had moved court seeking a stay on the action against him taken by the college on disciplinary grounds.
In a writ petition filed before Delhi High Court, Devansh Mehta sought "quashing of the order banning/suspending publication of the St Stephen's Weekly, stay on the suspension order and restraining the principal from taking any further action against him".
Mehta, a third-year Philosophy student and editor of the banned e-zine, on Wednesday was suspended till April 23 after a one-man inquiry committee appointed by the principal found him guilty of violating disciplinary norms of the college.
Mehta has also requested in his petition that he be awarded the Rai Saheb Banarsi Das Memorial Prize, for which he was earlier selected by the college faculty before being later dropped from the list in the wake of the controversy. He was to have received the prize from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who will be the Chief Guest at the college's graduation ceremony on April 18.
As per the suspension order, Mehta will not be able to attend the graduation ceremony now.
"The person whose name the prize commemorates did care for 'behaviour', as the college too does. Recommending a student who has been indicted for undisciplined behaviour is an insult to the dead person as it is to the living college," College Principal Valson Thampu had said then.
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