Who authorised student to file petition on your behalf: HC asks varsity

Who authorised student to file petition on your behalf: HC asks varsity

Srinagar: The High Court has directed Dean, School of legal studies, Central University of Kashmir, to explain before the court how a student of their institution has been authorised to file a petition in the name of the institute.
The court while hearing the matter noted that the Dean or the Ex-officio Chairman of the Institute or any officer of the University has not come forward to file this petition.
The court said that a student, Iman Abdul Muizz, has only been authorised to file and argue the petition on behalf of the Institute though “he is not authorised to file the petition in the name of the Institute through himself.”
The bench of Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Mohammad Akram Chowdhary directed the Dean School of Legal Studies (Ex-Officio Chairman), to come forward and disclose clearly the nature of the Centre for Public Interest Litigation and Legal Aid, and explain who is in-charge of it and under what provisions of law the same has been constituted.
“He may also inform why the head of the said Institute himself is not coming forward to institute the petition,” the court directed.
Earlier, the Centre for Public Interest Litigation and Legal Aid, a constituent Institute of the Central University of Kashmir, had filed this writ petition in public interest through one of its students to seek ought directions from the court to provide free laptop or/and tablet or/and any other digital equipment essential for the purpose of online classes and accessing online education, to children belonging to ‘weaker sections’ and ‘disadvantaged groups’.

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