Break to fake attendance in degree colleges!
Bio-metric system to replace manual attendance
Bengaluru, November 23: The Higher Education department has decided to make bio-metric attendance system compulsory for the students to avoid fake attendance in all degree colleges across the state. The department would direct all colleges to set up the new attendance system by the end of this academic year.
Along with avoiding the fake attendance, it was decided to introduce this system to put an end to the allegation that the lecturers would not take classes at regular timings. If the new system is adopted, the number of absentee students would come down and it would avoid the teachers spending time sitting idle at the staff rooms.
The department has decided to implement this system in all degree colleges and universities for students and teaching staff. Every student and teacher should give his or her thumb impression while coming inside and going outside the college campus.
Data registration
During thumb impression while coming inside or going outside, the data of the students would be stored in the server. Since the data would be linked to the examination system, the students who would not get sufficient attendance would not get hall tickets for exams.
Applies to engineering colleges too
This decision would apply to engineering and polytechnic colleges in the state. The Higher Education department would shortly call a tender for installing the bio-metric system in all colleges.
‘Students of a particular university have given complaint that the teachers are not taking classes regularly. I have informed the vice chancellor of the concerned university to solve the problem”.
- GT Deve Gowda, Higher Education Minister
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
