The Cooperative School of Law in Thodupuzha, Idukki, witnessed dramatic scenes on Tuesday after a group of students threatened to jump off the roof of college building following the suspension of seven students. This comes a day after they staged a protest against alleged overgrading by teachers.
According to the protesting students, the college management favoured a student of first-semester BBA-LLB programme by awarding excess marks, which was against the college norms. Jifnas K. Fhakrudeen, union chairman of cooperative college, said the maximum permissible internal marks for a student has been fixed at 20 out of 25. “But the teachers from the college generously gave 24 marks to a woman student, who did not even attend the classes properly,” he said.
The students staged a protest in front of the college on Monday seeking action against the teachers for overgrading. They had earlier raised a complaint before the Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) Vice-Chancellor and Higher Education Minister in this regard.
