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New Indian Express
09-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Kerala HC cancels engineering and medical results; revised guidelines affect CBSE, ICSE students
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday annulled the results of the Kerala Engineering, Architecture, and Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examinations, ruling that the last-minute amendment to the prospectus was unlawful. The KEAM exams were conducted by the Commissioner of Entrance Examination from 23 to 29 April 2025, with results announced on 14 May. The final rank list was published on 1 July. Justice D.K. Singh observed that the revised ranking methodology for KEAM 2025 disproportionately disadvantaged students who had studied the CBSE or ICSE syllabus during their higher secondary education. Consequently, the Court set aside the amended prospectus and directed the state to issue a revised rank list in accordance with the original, unamended prospectus.
The Hindu
09-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Kerala High Court quashes KEAM 2025 entrance exam results
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) quashed the results of the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 entrance examinations. The results were announced earlier this month. Passing the order, Justice D.K. Singh stated that the revised method in KEAM 2025 to calculate the ranks adversely affected students who studied CBSE or ICSE syllabus in their higher secondary classes. The order came on a petition filed by Hana Fatima Ahnus, a student who had appeared for the KEAM exam, stating that the weightage criteria was made after the release of the exam's prospectus. The court termed this 'an illegal move.' The petitioner who appeared for the entrance exam to secure admission in engineering had alleged that the ranking procedure was amended on the date of publication of the rank list. This adversely affected her and that her rank was pushed to 4,209. A candidate who obtained similar marks in 2024 had been ranked 1,907, she said in her petition, and alleged that the amendment was 'arbitrary, illegal and malafide.' She further contended that this was made with 'the oblique motive to do away with' the weightage given to CBSE and ICSE students. The sudden change of the KEAM-2025 standardisation formula had left many students feeling frustrated and disillusioned as it impacted their expected ranks, following which many of them lodged complaints with the Kerala government, claiming that the normalisation method used this year was unfair and illogical. It had been reported that last year, State higher secondary students had suffered due to the flawed standardisation process by the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations (CEE), which conducted KEAM. This year, however, CBSE and ICSE students were facing the brunt of it. The Unaided Schools Protection Council (USPC), an umbrella body of private schools, too had moved the High Court against the new standardisation method.
The Hindu
03-07-2025
- The Hindu
Kerala HC dismisses petition filed by teacher charged under POCSO Act
Stating that an acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically lead to the setting aside of a departmental inquiry and the consequential proceedings, the Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by a schoolteacher who was charged under the POCSO Act for alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old student in classroom. The petitioner who was an Arabic teacher at a school in Malappuram and was placed under suspension following the registration of the FIR over a year ago, approached the court, seeking that a departmental inquiry report and the consequential proceedings following the incident be set aside. Among other reasons, he said that he had been acquitted in the criminal trial, after the survivor and her mother 'turned hostile'. 'Benefit of doubt' Referring to the ancient education system in India where teachers were known as 'rishis', and the 'rishi ashram' was a veritable 'gurukul' where students were loved and cared for as members of the guru's family, the Bench of Justice D.K. Singh said the petitioner was acquitted in the criminal case on the benefit of doubt. Even if a person is acquitted in a criminal trial, the same would not necessarily lead to discharge in a domestic inquiry. Being her teacher, the petitioner had a fiduciary relationship with the survivor. The crime is grossly unbecoming of a schooteacher. The petitioner teacher was accused of sexually assaulting the student since January 2023 while she was reading standing near the petitioner in the classroom. The Wandoor police filed an FIR in 2024, under provisions of the POCSO Act and the IPC after being alerted by the headmaster. The child had told her mother about the assault and she informed the headmaster.
The Hindu
16-06-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Kerala HC judge recommends promotion of govt. pleader
In a bizarre move, Justice D.K. Singh of the Kerala High Court has recommended the government to promote a government pleader appearing before him as a senior government pleader. Government pleaders and senior government pleaders are appointed by the government of the day at its discretion. The judge made the recommendation recently to promote government pleader Parvathy Kottol as senior government pleader during the hearing on a petition by the wife of an educational officer and her daughter seeking to disburse Death-Cum-Retirement Gratuity (DCRG) to them. In the interim order passed on June 11, the udged observed: 'Parvathy Kottol, the government pleader, who may be designated as senior government pleader as she has completed more than 12 years of practice, and the government has not yet designated her as senior government pleader, for which the necessary decision is to be taken by the government.' When the petition came up for hearing, the court granted the government pleader three weeks time to file an objection to the petition filed by the petitioners in the case.
