HC to aid of students expelled for eloping

Kochi, July 22

“Love is blind and an innate humane instinct. It is all about individuals and their freedom,” the Kerala High Court has said, quashing a Kochi college order expelling a woman and her senior for being struck by Cupid and eloping.

In a recent judgment, Justice A Muhamed Mustaque observed that the love affair and eloping termed as immoral amounting to a breach of discipline by the college was based on moral values of the persons in the management.

The authorities of the college in Kollam district failed to understand that intimate personal relationship was the matter of privacy of individuals upon which they had no authority to interfere, Justice Mustaque said.

“Is love a freedom or fetter is the question that is raised in this writ petition in the context of imposition of academic discipline,” he said.

The judge allowed petitions by the 21-year-old man and the 20-year-old woman, both BBA students, and directed the college to allow her to continue the course and return the academic records of the other petitioner as sought by him.

The woman, who had joined the course for 2016-17 academic year, fell in love with her senior. The college authorities and their parents had objected to their love, following which they had eloped. — PTI