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Thursday, Jan 20, 2005

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Varsity told to allow NRI students to write exams

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JAN. 19 . The Madras High Court today directed the Directorate of Technical Education and Anna University to permit five students admitted to a college under the NRI quota to write the first semester examination.

Justice K. Sivasubramanian said the college should produce the embassy certificates of the students within two weeks.

In a petition, filed on its behalf by counsel K. Selvaraj and Sugirdha Selvaraj, Sri Jayaram Engineering College, Chellam Kuppam, Cuddalore, said five students, C. Abdul Jaseer (EEE), S. Saravanan (EEE), V. Radhakrishnan (CSE), A. Anand (ECE) and K. Santoshkumar (EEE), were admitted under the NRI quota and it produced the required documents and certificates, except the embassy certificates.

The college requested the university to give provisional eligibility certificates to the five subject on the condition that the embassy certificates would be submitted within a week, and that till the submission, the results for the students could be withheld.

As the students submitted all other documents, they were entitled to provisional eligibility certificates. Since the certificates were not issued, the candidates were not permitted to write the examinations, which began today. Unless the students were allowed for the examinations, they would be greatly prejudiced and the semester would go waste.

The college undertook to obtain embassy certificates and produce them within a week. It prayed for the respondents permitting the students to write the examination without insisting on the embassy certificates.

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