A division bench of Justice M B Ghodeswar and Justice B N Srikrishna on Thursday allowed three colleges run by the Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board to fill in their 50 per cent quota as a minority college through a system of their own, from the minority quota and the in-house students for the newly introduced Bachelor of Management Studies course. These colleges are the HR College of Commerce, the M M K College, Bandra and the C H M College, Ulhasnagar.

The orders were passed without disturbing the centralised admission process (cep)carried out by the University of Mumbai on the lines of the CEP. The examinations have been concluded in all the colleges running the new course. The bench was hearing a petition filed by the Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board.

The petitioners' counsel Nari Gurshahani had claimed that by forcing the CEP on minority colleges their fundamental rights were being violated. Reading from Supreme Courtorders he pointed out that the minority colleges had been given the option of filling the minority quota through the CEP or by any other procedure. However, on a specific plea by the varsity's counsel Rui Rodrigues that the admission ought to be monitored by the court, a direction was passed that all the particulars of these admissions to the 50 per cent quota will be placed before the court within a period of two weeks.

Interim relief in toll case refused

A division bench of Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice S H Kapadia on Friday declined a request by the state government to grant an interim relief in the toll payments on the Sion-Panvel highway. The bench had stayed the toll collection at this flyover since July 9. The bench, then proceeded to direct the state government to file another affidavit on the toll charges.

The directions were given following the perusal of the files on the flyovers that were presented to the court. The bench remarked that while the state had in their firstsubmissions claimed that the toll was to recover the cost of the construction of all the 55 flyovers in the city, the affidavit later tendered to the court claimed that it was only to recover the cost of the specific flyover. However, the bench said that the idea behind the levy of the toll was to finance the entire flyover scheme and not individual flyovers. Since the state contradicting itself, the bench directed that the state file a fresh affidavit.