SHILLONG: The State government has withdrawn the notice restricting the admission process of CMJ University following the intervention of the High Court of Meghalaya.
After a contempt petition was filed by CMJ University though its counsel R. Jha against the notice of the State government which restricted the admission process of the University, Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari in the order on September 6 did not find anything wrong in the admission process since there was no verdict from any of the courts in this regard.
The counsels of the State government had earlier cited the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the government before the Supreme Court as the reason for issuing notice to the University to stop the admission process.
The July 21 order of the government was to restrict the petitioner from calling readmission of students for the academic session 2016-2017 because of the fact that the SLP (Civil) Diary No. 34990 of 2015 against the petitioner (university) was sub judice before the Supreme Court.
However, the order of the High Court said the issuance of notice was an “exercise wholly unwarranted and rather avoidable. Obviously, when the SLP had been filed before the Supreme Court, appropriate orders ought to have been sought therein; and without any such order of the Supreme Court, the respondents could not have issued any directions in conflict with the operative order of this Court”.
The Chief Justice also referred to the earlier order of the single bench of the High Court which had not issued any order restricting the admission process.
The SLP filed before the Supreme Court had not come up for consideration as yet and it was listed on August 29, 2016.
The respondents have admitted that the government will have to wait for the verdict of the Supreme Court.
However, the order of the Chief Justice further said, “It goes without saying that neither the disposal of this contempt petition nor any observations made hall have any bearing on the rights of the parties, which shall be governed by the order to be passed by the Supreme Court.”
