New Delhi, July 13: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the chief secretary of Delhi government and vice chancellor and registrar of Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University here on a petition alleging irregularities in admission to BEd course. While issuing the notices, Justice Vikramjit Sen asked the three respondents to file their replies by July 21 and posted the matter for further hearing on July 23.

In the meantime, the university has given an undertaking to the court that it will display on the notice board the details of the manner in which the "outside Delhi general quota" candidates have been granted admission. The university's deputy registrar Sushil Kumar also undertook that none of the information presently available on the website pertaining to Common Entrance Test 2003 shall be deleted or removed.

Earlier, during hearing on Friday, the petitioners counsel expressed an apprehension that the information available on the university's website may be deleted.

In their petition filed through Naushad Ahmad Khan, Madhu Bala and five other candidates alleged that the university was not following proper admission procedure and it was not clear as to how many seats were available against general, SC/ST, physically disabled and defence quota for candidates from Delhi and those hailing from other states. The petitioners, who cleared the written test held on June 15 last, further alleged that despite being called for counselling, they were not allowed to participate in the same on July 4 and were wrongfully denied admission.

Bureau Report