Supreme Court of India

G H Apj Abdul Kalam Technological University & Anr. v. Jai Bharath College of Management and Engineering Technology & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 13 S.C.R. 732
Bench S. A. Bobde, A. S. Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian JJ.
Decided 10 December 2020

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the view taken by the Kerala High Court in paragraphs 33 to 35 of the impugned judgment on issue no.2, is unsustainable.

Judgment, page 30

From the headnote

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Act, 2015: Purpose of enactment – Held: To regulate technical e ducation in the State of Kerala. APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Act, 2015: s.30(2) – Power of Syndicate to lay down norms for grant of affiliat ion for additional courses – Held: The source of power for the Syndicate to prescribe norms and standards for affiliation is s.30(2) – s .30(2) begins with the words “subject to the provisions of the Act and the Statutes” – So, if there is something in the Act or the St atutes which regulates or controls the power of the Syndicate, then

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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