St Stephen’s forced to admit petitioner

Earlier, the High Court had directed St. Stephen’s College to state its stand on the denial of admission to George. Justice Singh had issued directions to the college to file a reply before July 20, the next date of hearing, after the college submitted that the applicant was denied admission under the Christian quota as he had not submitted his `Baptism Certificate’.

Justice Singh had also directed the college authorities to submit the records of admission for the first-year B.A. (Hons) Economic course. The petitioner had submitted that he had scored 94.75 per cent in the Class XII Indian School Certificate Examination from Kottayam, Kerala, and alleged that St. Stephen’s College had denied him admission in the B.A. (Hons) Economics course in an “illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory” manner. George’s contention was that students who had obtained around 81 per cent in the Class XII examination had been admitted in the same course.

His counsel had submitted that “the lack of transparency and the absolute authority to admit or reject any student once they have been called for an interview, irrespective of the marks obtained in the qualifying examination, has been retained (in St. Stephen’s) so that influential persons can be favoured.”

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