"In An Ideal Society...": Kerala High Court On Girls' Hostel Night Curbs
NDTV
The petitions were filed by certain girl students of Government Medical College Kozhikode.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday said that basic discipline will have to be "maintained" in student hostels and disposed of the petitions filed by certain girl students challenging the Higher Education Department notification barring girl students from going out of the hostel after 9.30 PM.
The petitions were filed by certain girl students of Government Medical College Kozhikode against the impugned notification issued by the Higher Education Department.
"Girls only need the permission of the hostel warden to go inside the campus from the hostel after 9.30 pm. At the same time, parents' permission is required to leave the hostel after 9.30 for other purposes," the court stated.
Single Bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran also observed that a basic discipline will have to be maintained in student hostels and these cannot be found to be an intrusion into the personal liberties of our young men and women, as long as they are not capricious or intended to foster patriarchism.
