KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has come to the aid of a girl who fell sick and was unable to pursue her studies for almost a year while she was doing the second semester of B.Arch in the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University. The court directed the APJ University to treat the readmission of the appellant to the course of B.Arch. under the APJ University as a student of B.Arch. course of the University of Kerala which she shall continue as such. Her readmission would be in III semester and not in II semester.
She would have the right to clear the backlog papers which are to be conducted by the University of Kerala as supplementary examination as was usually done. She was a student of the College of Architecture, Thiruvananthapuram who joined during 2015-2016. She moved the court against a single bench order which denied her permission. The college was at the relevant time affiliated to the University of Kerala. She cleared her theory papers in the first semester, but in the II semester, she dropped one theory paper. As per the Kerala University statute and regulation, she was promoted to the III semester. She attended some classes but then fell critically ill and was unable to pursue her studies for almost a year.
