HC quashes four sections of Self-Financing Colleges Act

Thursday, January 4, 2007, 17:52 [IST]

Kochi, Jan 4 (UNI) In a major setback to the State Government, the Kerala High Court today quashed four important sections in the Kerala Self-Financing Professional Colleges Act terming them as ''invalid and unconstitutional.'' A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice V K Bali and Mr Justice P R Raman in their judgement termed Section 3, 7, 8 and 10, relating to admission procedures, fees structure, power of government to decide the minority status of the colleges and reservation to various communities, including SC/ST as ''invalid and unconstitutional.'' The over 300-page judgement was given after disposing of five writ petitions by the state government and a batch of petitions by self-financing professional college managements associations.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007,14:16 [IST]

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