HC upholds expulsion of 3 students for brutal attack

Observing that students who indulged in unnatural offences to satiate their sadist instincts did not deserve any sympathy, the Madras High Court Bench here today upheld the expulsion of three students from a private college for brutally attacking a fellow student.
"Any tinkering by this court with the orders of expulsion against the petitioners will send wrong signals to the educational institutions," Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana said.
He was dismissing the petitions by the three students of the college in Devakottai who were apprehended while beating a B.Com student causing him severe injuries.
"If judicial activism is resorted to in the cases like the present one, it will be difficult to control the already worsened condition of discipline in educational institutions," the Judge said holding that the petitions were wholly devoid of merit and substance.

He said a perusal of the records showed that the expelled students were caught beating a B.Com student causing him severe injuries in the backbone.
The college Council, after discussing the matter in detail, decided that the continuance of the students in the college will be detrimental to the smooth functioning and recommended their dismissal.

Referring to the petitioners' ground that they had not been given any opportunity to give their views, the Judge said the requirements of natural justice must depend on the facts and circumstances of the case.
In this case, the petitioners, who are students, indulged in threatening the third year B.Com students and attacked one Kannan beating him in an "uncultured and brutal manner".

"I am at a loss to understand as to what are the requirements of natural justice in a case of this kind," the Judge said.