‘No eviction of vision-hit 5 students’
Coming to the rescue of five visually-challenged students who were asked to vacate a government hostel in the city following the eviction order by the management, the Delhi high court has directed the NCT government to allow them to stay in the hostel in Connaught Place till November 2010 and consider their memorandum for an alternative accommodation after they leave it.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan, said, “We are inclined to direct that the appellants (students) shall not be evicted till end of November...”.
The order came after hearing an appeal filed by blind student Lalit Kumar and four others challenging a single judge’s order, which dismissed their plea for extension of their stay in the hostel.
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IAS aspirant gets relief from court
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Asking the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to adopt a sympathetic view towards a disabled, who did not paste his photograph at the proper place on the application form, the Delhi high court directed it not to dismiss the candidature of an aspiring IAS candidate, A. Rahu Verma, on this ground.
The candidature of Verma was rejected because he did not paste his photograph at the marked place on the form as he is 75 per cent blind.
UPSC counsel Naresh Kaushik submitted that he would impress upon the board to take a sympathetic view.
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