The petitioner had moved court against the varsity for not approaching the ACPC for carrying out centralised admissions in the professional courses run it.
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday sought a reply from the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU), state government, and Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) by July 8, in connection with a contempt petition filed by a former student of the varsity, Sandip Munjyasara. The petitioner had moved court against the varsity for not approaching the ACPC for carrying out centralised admissions in the professional courses run it.
Notably, a division bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice AY Kogje had in its August 2, 2018, order held that GFSU will have to approach ACPC, which carries out centralised admissions process for professional courses, for admitting students for the professional courses run by it. However, as per Munjyasara, the varsity again started its own admission process for professional courses without approaching ACPC in April 2019.
After ACPC intervened in the same, the admission process started by the varsity was stopped. However, the varsity again on June 19 issued advertisement for admission to its professional courses, against which Munjyasara moved the high court with a contempt petition. The petitioner claimed that if individual institutes are allowed to conduct their own admission process, it would bring back the old-system where students had to face harassment by filling admission forms in all the institutes offering courses of their choice. He argued that ACPC was introduced by the government to put an end to the old system and ensure a centralised admission process.
IITRAM should stop M.Tech admissions: PIL
In a separate PIL filed by Munjyasara against Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), he has demanded that the court should stop the institute from carrying out its own admission process for M.Tech courses, which is a professional course, and instead approach ACPC for admissions. The court had earlier directed the institute to file a reply. However, counsel for the Institute on Wednesday sought time. The government's counsel, meanwhile, orally submitted that there are eight institutions declared as 'Centre of Excellence' and IITRAM is one of them. The government also said these eight institutions are exempted from ACPC and can have their own admission process. However, Munjyasara objected claiming that these institutions have not followed the prescribed procedure as per law to achieve the 'tag'. The court has now ordered the state government and IITRAM to clarify its stand on the issue by the first week of July.
Court rejects JEE applicant's plea for bonus marks
Gujarat High Court on Wednesday rejected the plea of Anurag Pathak, a Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) aspirant, who had alleged that there were wrong questions and answers in the physics and mathematics paper for Gujarati-medium students on April 9 in the first shift. The court rejected the plea on the basis of contentions raised by National Testing Agency, which conducts the exam, that the applicant had the option of viewing the English version of the question, other students who had taken admissions pursuant to appearing in the examination are not before it, and out of the two questions in dispute, he did not attempt one, whereas the answer opted by him for the other was wrong.
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