A Faculty marksheet prepared by the concerned authorities can lead a sensitive student to commit suicide, observed the Gujarat High Court while reprimanding Mumbai-based Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University (SNDT University).

The court came down heavily on the country’s first women university for preparing faulty marksheets of 94 B Ed students from Matru Shri Kesarben Savania B Ed College in Veraval, which is affiliated to the varsity. The marksheets were carrying several mistakes, following which the college management filed a petition in the HC to get them corrected.Though, following a controversy over the petitioner college’s recognition with SNDT University and the varsity authorities’ insistence not to allow the students of this college to take the annual examination, the college had approached the HC and the court had, in an interim-order, asked the university authorities to let the students sit in the examination.

As the students wanted to apply for the postgraduate course, the HC had asked the university to give the final marksheets by October 3. And, when the students received the marksheets, they discovered that all of them were marred by serious mistakes. This made the college management move the HC through their lawyer, Ramesh Savania.

“The university authorities had, in many cases, shown the absent students as present and present students as absent. Apart from that, the university had also mentioned wrong subjects and medium of instruction against the relevant students,” said senior counsel Sudhir Nanavati, who argued on behalf of the college management in the matter before the court of Justice R R Tripathi.

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