Today when the case was taken up by Justice N.Anandha Venkatesh at Court 11, at item 26 this morning,M.Ravi adv represented Pondicherry University &Mr. Stalin represented students council &Mr. Ramalingam agp appeared for Pondicherry govt second respondents DGP .upon hearing the arguments of M.Ravi adv & on perusal of the pleadings, J
[3/10, 16:05] Sekarreporter 1: Today when the case was taken up by Justice N.Anandha Venkatesh at Court 11, at item 26 this morning,M.Ravi adv represented Pondicherry University &Mr. Stalin represented students council &Mr. Ramalingam agp appeared for Pondicherry govt second respondents DGP .upon hearing the arguments of M.Ravi adv & on perusal of the pleadings, Justice strongly observed that students do not have any right to indulge in protest that is not peaceful & instructed the counsels of both sides to discuss the matter freely & to express whether the students are prepared to withdraw the agitation& whether University is prepared to call student representatives for further negotiation talks & report on 11.3& when M.Ravi insisted that matter is extremely serious & requested that matter be called at 2.15pm to report, the same was accepted & once again matter was called at 2.15pm& in the meanwhile M.Ravi reported about the matter to the Registrar madam& consulted with her &also requested A.SG snr advocate G Rajagopaalan to appear at 2.15 pm . At 2.15 pm once again arguments were advanced& Justice strongly observed that revision of fee is not a subject matter & the only subject matter is the means in which the protest is made as the students do not have any semblance of right to indulge in such protest in the campus. Then Snr advocate appeared and asserted that the revised fee is only for first year students& they have willingly paid the fees for 2019_2020 & these students are few in number&. Instigated by unscrupulous persons. Justice said even assuming if fee revision is not fully justified or fully justified the students cannot indulge in unlawful protest& finally gave suitable directions with ultimatum to Mr.Stalin that students shall forthwith forbear from any manner of protest & offer for peaceful negotiation & matter will be called after two weeks. Justice directed him to report tomorrow as to whether students accepted to withdraw the agitation & the undertaking be recorded, failing which court will pass suitable orders. M.Ravi also has been instructed to report about the students reaction by tomorrow.thus matter is posted tomorrow.
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