Self Financing Engineering Colleges Withdraw Petitions Supreme Court

Self-Financing Engineering Colleges Withdraw Petitions

Nine Self Financing Engineering Colleges Failed

Self-Financing Engineering Colleges Withdraw Petitions

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday cleared hurdles to admission of students to engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu by dismissing a batch of petitions filed by self-financing engineering colleges challenging the Government directive to surrender 65 per cent of the seats to it.

When the petitions came up for hearing before a Bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice P.P. Naolekar, counsel A. Mariarputham, appearing for most of the colleges, sprang a surprise by informing the court that he had instructions to withdraw the petitions. When the Bench sought to know the reason, counsel said he had submitted a letter to the Registry seeking withdrawal of the petitions.

The letter, dated July 27, said counselling had progressed substantially and a large number of students allotted to a number of unaided engineering colleges, including those run by the petitioners.

Further allotments would be made till July 30. Keeping in mind the larger interests of the students concerned, the petitioners had decided to withdraw the special leave petitions, without prejudice to the contentions raised in the SLPs.

Recording the submission, the Bench dismissed the SLPs, making it clear to counsel that the colleges would not be allowed to file any other appeal for the same relief.

The petitioners in their SLPs stated that they had not given any undertaking to the Government on seat sharing. They refuted the Government's contention that 160 colleges had given their consent. Only 64 colleges had agreed for the seat sharing arrangement. This could not be put against those who had not signed it.

Once a law had been held unconstitutional, the High Court could not make it operative only from next year and direct continuance of admissions on the basis of the same law, they said, and sought a direction to quash the impugned judgment.

The appeal filed by the State challenging the same judgment is still pending as the Bench had issued notice to the consortium/colleges concerned.

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