New Delhi: One of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case on Tuesday sought a direction to IGNOU from the trial court to provide him a copy of the examination schedule for the first year of BA course. Accused Vinay Sharma, who along with four others had allegedly gangraped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus here, filed the plea in a fast-track court trying the case.
Vinay, in his petition, filed through his counsel AP Singh, said that he had taken admission in first year of BA programme of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in August last year. The lawyer told the judge that IGNOU has not yet sent its exam schedule to Vinay and, therefore, the university should be directed to provide it to allow him to prepare for his examination.
Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan raised objection to Vinay's request, saying his parents could collect the date sheet or even his counsel could do the same. Vinay said the university was not giving the schedule and "so it is difficult for me to prepare for my exams". Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the police to file its response to the plea.
Vinay has pleaded not guilt to the charge of raping the physiotherapy student and claimed trial. The charge of murder was added after the victim died in a Singapore hospital on December 29. Vinay had earlier asked the court to provide him with a tutor and reading material to help
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New Delhi: The former vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, VN Rajasekharan Pillai, was on Thursday charged with corruption by the CBI. Pillai is accused of favouring the Sikkim Manipal and the Punjab Technical universities without following due procedures. The CBI on Thursday conducted raids at his properties in Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam in Kerala, following which a corruption case was registered against him. ...
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New Delhi: The India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started the admission process for the July 2012 session for masters, bachelors, diplomas and certificate programmes. The last date for Masters of Computer Application (MCA), Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), Bachelor Preparatory Programme (BPP) and all certificate programmes is June 15 and for other master degree programmes the last date is July 30, an IGNOU statement said. "The university also...
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New Delhi: The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....
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Over 95 per cent of IGNOU students enrolled in its much sought after BA course fail to graduate. ...
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