JUDGMENT

[WP(C) Nos.22835/2024, 21140/2024, 22028/2024, 25806/2024, 28606/2024, 29685/2024, 30162/2024, 33231/2024] .....

In all these writ petitions, the challenge is made against an order issued by the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (hereinafter referred to as the ‘University’), by which, 19 students of the University were proceeded against as part of disciplinary proceedings and imposed with the penalty of expulsion from the college and debarring them from securing admission in any other college for a period of three years. ( For the sake of convenience, the documents and respondents are hereinafter referred to as per the sequence shown in WP(C) No.22835 of 2024, unless otherwise specifically mentioned )

2. The facts that led to the filing of these writ petitions are as follows: All the petitioners are students of Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (B.V.Sc & A.H) under the University. The petitioners include students studying from 2 nd year to the final year of the course. The subject matter of this writ petition is an unfortunate incident that occurred in the college hostel on 18.02.2024, in which one student of the second year, by the name Sidha