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to education, a rule or instruction which impairs the said right of the students
cannot be permitted to stand in the eye of law.
19.
It is pertinent to note that the learned counsel for the college
vehemently argued that in the absence of any challenge to the rules and
regulations, the petitioner cannot be heard to challenge the action taken in
accordance with the rules. The learned counsel for the college also argued that in
the light of the judgment of the Full Bench of this Xourt in Pavitran V.K. M V
State of Kerala & others: 2009(4) KLT 20: 2009(4) KHC 4 , the rules and
regulations of the hostel will stand as long as it is not set aside. But in this case the
rule was that the mobile phones shall not be used in the hostel. Therefore, what
remains is only the decision/instruction restricting/banning the use of mobile
phone from 6 pm to 10 pm and the direction to surrender the mobile phone to the
warden. When it is already found that such an action infringes the fundamental
freedom as well as privacy and will adversely affect the future and career of
students who want to acquire knowledge and compete with their peers, such
instruction or restriction cannot be permitted to be enforced.
20.
While enforcing discipline it is necessary to see the positive aspects of
the mobile phone also. As held by this Court in the judgment in Anjitha K.Jose'
case (supra), the restriction should have connection with the discipline and when
there is nothing to show that there was any act of indiscipline on account of the
usage of mobile phone by the petitioner, that cannot stand. The fact that no other
student objected to the restriction or that all others obeyed the instructions will not
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