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PANAJI
At the crux of the matter was an order passed by the Goa University Vice Chancellor declaring the election of Jisam Salam and Nikita Naik as University Representatives from St Xavier’s College as ‘invalid’ on grounds that they had submitted their nomination forms late.
The students contended that they ended up being five minutes late because the returning officer turned them back asking them to produce an expenditure certificate, which was not required to be produced at the stage of nomination.
The Vice Chancellor also declared those who were lower down the list of as being declared elected.
The order was issued by the Vice Chancellor after they were declared as elected and after an initial appeal against their nominations was also rejected by the grievance redressal cell of the Goa University.
“Even we would not have entertained the present petition, at this stage, however considering the reversal decision of election based upon
IN COURT’S VIEW
Provisions of Statute nowhere permits the college to declare the next candidate as elected though admittedly they lost the election to the petitioners
If there is no provision available to make such declaration there was no reason for the college to declare and publish such revised list of University Class Representative
Five minutes delay so recorded wrongly in the background by the Election Officer in our view should not have been raised against the petitioners
