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W.P(C).No.19716/2019-L
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P.V.ASHA, J.
-------------------------W.P(C).No.19716 of 2019-L
------------------------------------------Dated this the 19th day of September, 2019
JUDGMENT
A 3rd semester B.A student of
Sree Narayanaguru College, Chelannur,
Kozhikode, has filed this Writ Petition aggrieved by her expulsion from the hostel.
It is stated that she has been staying in hostel run by the college which is an aided
college affiliated to University of Calicut. It is stated that the inmates of the hostel
were not allowed to use their mobile phone from 10 p.m to 6 a.m within the hostel
and that undergraduate students were not allowed to use laptop also in the hostel.
While so from 24.06.2019 onwards the duration of the restriction in using the
mobile phones was changed as 6 p.m to 10 p.m. The petitioner claims that though
she, along with other inmates of the hostel, met the Deputy Warden - the 5 th
respondent, requested to convene a meeting of the inmates, explaining the
inconveniences caused to them on account of the restrictions, the Deputy Warden
or the matron did not respond.
It is also stated that though a meeting was
convened within a week thereafter, no discussion was made regarding the
restriction of the electronic devices. It is stated that the 5 th respondent sent a
WhatsApp message informing that those who do not abide by the rules would have
to vacate the hostel. The petitioner claims that she thereupon approached the