LAHORE: UHS ordered to give good students extra marks
LAHORE, June 23: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the vice-chancellor of University of Health Sciences (UHS) to grant 10 per cent additional marks to the Lahore Medical and Dental Collage students if they met the criteria set for such a facility.
Twenty-four students of the LMDC had moved the court for availing additional 10 per cent marks granted on the bases of good performance. Justices Tassaduq Husain Jilani and Bashir A. Mujahid heard the petition filed through Advocate Masood Mirza.
The lawyer said that the medical students used to get these additional marks on the basis of good performance when their institutions were affiliated with the University of the Punjab.
However, when they were affiliated with the University of Health Sciences, the criteria was followed arbitrarily and impartially by only providing this facility to the students of chosen institutions, the lawyer had added.
CONTEMPT NOTICE: Justice Syed Jamshed Ali Shah on Wednesday issued contempt of court notice to the Punjab education secretary and summoned him for next week on a contempt application by a lecturer of a local college.
Appellant Abdul Aleem's counsel said he had caught a student cheating in the intermediate examinations. But the student in connivance with the board officials had the case quashed and as a consequence his client was barred from becoming a superintendent in any examination, he added.
He said his client approached the court which ordered the education secretary to decide his case within 30 days which he had not and thus he committed contempt of court. -PPI
