Students courier applications, ComedK denies hall tickets

Bengaluru: Sixty five students from Telangana were denied admission tickets to appear for the May 10 ComedK entrance test. The reason: Their applications were sent through courier instead of speed post. Based on their petition, the high court on Tuesday ordered notices to the government and ComedK. A vacation division bench headed by justice Anand Byrareddy also ordered notice to Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala, a residential school at Ranga Reddy district in Telangana where petitioners Mohammed Abdul Rab and others were pursuing their course. The school authorities reportedly failed to send the applications through speed post as stipulated in the examination notification. The matter is posted for May 7. The petitioners have challenged the condition 5 of the April 13, 2015, notification issued by ComedK making it mandatory to send applications through speed post only. Terming the rule "arbitrary and unsustainable in law", they said despite meeting all the educational requirements mentioned in the notification, ComedK has denied them an opportunity to appear for the examination and also their right to education which amounts to nipping their career itself. They claimed that since it was a residential school and they were not allowed to venture outside the campus, they requested the school authorities to post the applications along with demand drafts to ComedK. But, the institution sent the applications through courier on March 12.