petition seeking a stay on a Delhi University notification introducing
the semester system for under-graduate courses in various disciplines
from the coming academic year.
The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad
said, "We are not inclined to stay the notification."
Justice Singhvi told senior counsel Jayant Bhushan, appearing for
petitioner lecturers, that if there was anything improper with the
notification, University Chancellor and President Pratibha Patil could
set it right.
"The chancellor, upon satisfaction, can overrule any one including the
vice-chancellor. We can't interfere at this stage," said Justice
Singhvi.
With the apex court refusing to stay the April 28 interim order of the
Delhi High Court by which it had refused to stay the semester system's
introduction, Bhushan pleaded for the withdrawal of the petition.
Chiding the lecturers for going on strike, Justice Prasad said that
"on one hand, you file a writ petition in the high court and on the
other hand you resort to strike... This cannot be accepted."
He asked as to how many students were supporting the agitating
teachers. Upon being told that 3,000 students had represented against
the semester system, Justice Prasad asked then why no student had come
to court.
The lecturers, resisting the introduction of the semester system for
over a year now, challenged the interim order of the high court by
which it restrained them from opposing the system by taking recourse
to protest and demonstration.
Bhushan earlier described the notification introducing the semester
system as "arbitrary, illegal and one that was introduced without
proper application of mind". IANS
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