Mangalore, May 16: A month after appearing for internal assessment examination in handcuffs, Vittala Malekudiya, who is in judicial custody on charges of being an alleged Naxal sympathizer, has been denied permission to appear for his second semester examination conducted by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism in Mangalore University.
The examination is expected to start from May 21.
In a letter, University Registrar Chinnappa Gowda requested the jurisdictional Judicial Magistrate First Class, Belthangady, not to direct the University to grant permission to the tribal boy as his attendance was below the required 75 per cent, sources said.
Vice-Chancellor Shivashankara Murthy said said that the university norms prescribed that a postgraduate student should have 75 per cent or more in order to write the final examination. “Vittala Malakudiya does not meet this criterion. We have to follow the rules,” he said.
The university brought this norm to the notice of the court, which had passed orders to allow the student to write the internal examination on April 16. “We are bound to bring this norm to the notice of the court. We will act as per the directions of the court,” Mr. Murthy said.
However, the student's advocate Dinesh Hegde Ullepady said they would question the decision of the university before the High Court.
The 22-year-old student was arrested on March 3 along with his father at his house in Kuthlur in Belthangady taluk by Anti Naxal Force.
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