KOZHIKODE: Four of Nirmal Madhavan’s classmates at the Calicut University Institute of Engineering and Technology (CUIET), where he first studied, were denied admission to the West Hill Engineering College in 2010, though they had much higher ranks. The same seat was illegally occupied by Nirmal a year later, with special permission from the Chief Minister.Ajay T, Akhil Chandran, Ummer Farook and Mithun, who got admission in the CUIET in merit quota, applied for an inter-college transfer to the third semester, following a university notification of two vacant seats at the Government Engineering College. Despite applying through proper channels, they were denied admission by the university on the grounds of delayed applications.Having got admission in the management quota in the CUIET, Nirmal Madhavan could not apply for a transfer to the merit seat then. After that, Nirmal left CUIET and joined the College of Engineering and Management, Punnapra, as a Civil Engineering student.Later in July 2011, with the ‘special permission’ from the Chief Minister, Nirmal Madhavan was given direct admission to the fifth semester of Mechanical Engineering course where the university had earlier denied intercollege transfer to four meritorious students citing rules and regulations.“Four of us in the CUIET had applied for transfer to the Government Engineering College. But our applications were rejected by the Calicut University citing delay,’’ says Ajay, whose rank in the entrance examination is below 13,300.Besides, claims by Nirmal Madhavan that he was attacked by SFI activists at the College of Engineering and Management, Punnapra, were dismissed by the College Principal. “I have received no complaints on attack on Nirmal Madhavan in this college,’’ said Saji A J, Principal of the college. He added that Nirmal Madhavan had to pay condonation fees for attendance shortage in the first year when he studied Civil Engineering there.chief minister’s Claims not true The Idukki case, projected as a precedent for intercollege transfer by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to defend the admission of Nirmal Madhavan, was done without bypassing a single law, it has been proved. As per the records, Vamsi Krishna of MES Engineering College, Kuttipuram, was given a merit-to-merit transfer after his first year to Govt Engineering College, Idukki, and was given admission only to the third semester. Besides, none of the four precedents pointed out by former Youth Congress state president T Siddique, who supports Nirmal Madhavan’s admission, have bypassed the inter college/ inter university transfer rules, making Nirmal’s case the first-ofits- kind. State Technical Education Director J Latha has said that never in a general case, had a student been given admission to fifth semester, that too by skipping the exams of third and four semesters.
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