Notice issued on VC in case filed by undergrad

Sandasen Marasinghe

COLOMBO: The Court of Appeal issued notice on the Vice Chancellor, the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Culture and a lecturer of the South-Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) to appear before the Court of Appeal on August 21.

The two judge Bench comprising Justice K. Sripavan and Justice Sisira de Abrew issued notice after an undergraduate of SEUSL filed a petition stating his results at the final year examination was withheld and that he was entitled to a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to release the results.

A.L.M. Aslam an undergraduate of SEUSL who sat for his final examination in January 2006 cited 25 respondents including SEUSL Vice Chancellor Dr. A.G. Hussein Ismail, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Culture K.M.M. Faleel Haque and the SEUSL.

Aslam said he had secured the highest marks in his batch up to the first semester of the final year and he believed if the results of the second semester were released he would be entitled to be conferred with a First Class (Honours) degree.

Aslam said he submitted the student record book, subject registration form and the examination entry form to Faleel Haque, lecturer-Economics for his signature in accordance with the general practice. Later he found the signatures by the lecturer on the documents differed from one another. He informed this to the Vice Chancellor.

He said at the fourth year final semester examination he was informed on January 4, 2006 he was permitted to sit the examination, under protest because the lecturer-economics complained that the petitioner appeared to have forged the signatures of the lecturer-economics.