‘Political activities like sit-ins, hunger strikes have no place in democracy’: Kerala HC
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The Kerala High Court has said that “political activities” such as dharnas, or sit-ins, hunger strikes and satyagraha, or peaceful protests, have “no place in a constitutional democracy”, particularly in academic institutes, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed a first information report against a student accused of violating an order prohibiting unlawful gatherings during a protest, the newspaper reported.
The Kerala High Court made the observation while setting aside a single-bench order that allowed 16 suspended students of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in Ernakulam district to appear for their semester examinations.
The students, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s student wing, were suspended after they protested for better infrastructure and academic facilities, and held a street play that allegedly insulted Vice Chancellor Ciza Thomas in August.
The students had failed to meet the university’s attendance requirements as they had been suspended and approached the single-judge bench seeking permission to appear for their semester examinations. The bench had allowed them to appear for the examinations, subject to the final outcome of their writ petition.
The university appealed against the order on October 30.
On Tuesday, the division bench said the students had not provided evidence that they were eligible to appear for the examinations, The Indian Express reported.
The division bench...