Date:21/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/21/stories/2007112155000600.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

HC refuses plea by computer colleges

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to pass any interim order as sought for by three colleges imparting education in computer courses. It, however, permitted the students of the three institutions to be transferred to other colleges and to also appear for the examinations scheduled to be held from Wednesday.

The court had on Monday adjourned further hearing on petitions by three city-based institutions imparting education in computer courses and more than 100 of its students seeking a direction to the authorities to permit students to take up BCA examinations scheduled to commence from November 21.

Bangalore University submitted that the colleges had admitted students in excess of specified intake. Justice Mohan Shantangouder, in an interim order, asked the university to transfer the students to colleges which had intake and also permitted the students to appear for the examination.

Notice

Justice N.K. Patil on Tuesday admitted a writ petition by the State Government challenging a February 2007 order of the Commissioner of Disabilities directing the State to provide for 5 per cent reservation of posts of high school teachers to physically challenged.

The Commissioner had also asked the State to redo the reservation to posts to provide for posts to the physically challenged. The State had filed a writ against the order of the Commissioner and sought a stay.

Justice N.K. Patil ordered issue of notices to the respondents and adjourned further hearing on the case.

Bomb case

A Division Bench comprising Justice K. Sreedhar Rao and Justice Ravi B. Naik on Tuesday partly allowed an appeal by the State Government and sentenced 13 of the 44 accused in the sensational Gudibande bomb blast case to four years and three months in prison.

The State had appealed against the acquittal of the accused by the Kolar District and Sessions Court. It had urged the High Court to set aside the lower court order.

The Additional State Public Prosecutor, N. Rudramuni, submitted that on January 21, 1996 a mob had murdered Narayanaswamy in Hampasandra in Gudibande of Kolar district following a dispute.

He said that Narayanaswamy and Chitti Babu, both Naxalites, had hurled bombs the same day at a mob comprising among others Raj Kumar, Shivakumar, Ms. Krishnamma, Narasimhamurthy, Muddaahgari Ganganna, Edigara Sriramanna, Seenanna, Ms. Nagamma, Suryanarayana, Venkataraju, Chinnappaiah, Nagendra and Pillappa. In retaliation, the mob had attacked Narayanaswamy and Babu.

The Bench set aside the acquittal of Raj Kumar and 12 others and sentenced them to four years and three months imprisonment and a two-year sentence to Babu.