SAHIWAL: Around three dozen students of Masters in English, (Semester I), of the Government College University, Faisalabad, Sahiwal sub-campus, protested here on Thursday in front of the commissioner’s office against cancellation of their admissions and non-refund of the fee by the varsity.

The students gathered in front of commissioner’s office and chnted slogans against the varsity administration.

They alleged that the university sub-campus administration had admitted them for 2015-17 semester two months ago and charged Rs26,000 from each of the 55 students --- 24 males and 31 females.

Now after passage of two months, the sub-campus director told them they were not eligible for admission in MA English because they had less than 45pc marks in graduation.

They said they went through the whole process and after passing the admission test their names appeared on the merit list out of 200 students. Later, they were enrolled with the varsity sub-campus.

“We have taken classes for two months,” Almas Hyder one of the students informed Dawn. After two months, she said, the sub-campus Director, retired Col Hasan Imam, told them their admission had been cancelled because they had less than 45pc marks in the subject.

Another student, Arsalan Munir, said why the students were not informed of the condition when the merit list was displayed. “We all were asked to deposit Rs26,000 fee in the varsity sub-campus account and we did accordingly,”.

The protesting students demanded their fees should be refunded if they were not eligible for admission. They also demanded that the condition of minimum 45pc marks for the admission should be withdrawn.

The sub-campus director said the varsity won’t return the fees. However, he didn’t gave any reason for the varsity’s decision.

DEATH SENTENCE: Additional Session Judge Naeem Shaikh handed down death sentence, along with Rs300,000 fine, to a man accused of killing a seminary cashier in 2011.

Hizb Ullah Khalid worked as a cashier at Jamiya Rasheediya seminary. On August 29, 2011 he was found dead in a room there and Rs350,000 cash of the seminary was also missing from the locker.

The postmortem report said he was hit with an iron rod on the head.

Police during investigation took electrician Nehal, a friend of the deceased, in custody in 2012 who turned out to be the killer.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2015