Kerala High Court today dismissed appeals filed by the state government in the Plus two case and said it fully endorsed the single judge's order that the decision making process was 'vitiated.'
"We do not find any substance in the contention of the state and we decline to interfere with the single judge's order', a division bench comprising Justices Antony Dominique and Sheshadri Naidu, said while dismissing the appeals.
The bench said the interim order of the single judge was passed on the prima facie satisfaction that the decision making process was 'vitiated' and "we fully endorse that view', the bench held.
The court also said that the government decision was taken in deviation from earlier judgements of the High Court.
The bench held that it does not find any substance in the contention of the government and declined to interfere.
The government claimed that policy has to be upheld for the better interest of the student community, which is awaiting admission to plus two courses.
A single judge had on August 18 directed that only schools recommended by six-member expert committee, which had received approval of the Higher secondary Education Director, be given sanction to start plus two courses and additional batches this year.
The court had also made it clear that certain schools recommended by the committee, which had failed to get the Education Director's approval, be given provisional sanction to function forthwith, subject to conditions stipulated in the Government Order of July 31 this year.
Challenging this verdict, government had filed appeals stating that 14,250 seats from 225 batches would be lost and about 81,000 students denied plus two courses by the order.
The court in its July 10 order directed grant of Plus two schools according to educational needs and to grant courses in nine northern districts from Ernakulam and 148 panchayats. "Now the state wants to revise the order of the court," the bench had held.
