The 10 chairpersons jointly filed an application in the SC against the TU accusing it of contempt of court.[break]
They also filed a writ petition asking the SC to issue a stay order for preventing the TU from charging second-year students of Bachelors Level with the increased monthly fees.
The union chiefs have claimed in their application that the TU´s decision of charging all students with the hiked fees defies the SC´s order. Earlier on June 8, the SC had delivered its verdict on a case filed by Nepal Students´ Union (NSU) president Pradip Poudel and ruled that the TU can charge increased fees only from new students.
The TU and the student unions have interpreted the SC´s verdict in their own ways. While the TU argues that even those students who were enrolled in Bachelors Level before the fee hike decision on December 4, 2009, can be charged with the increased fees, the unions say that the decision can be applicable to only those who joined Bachelors Level post the decision. In a culmination of the TU-unions row, 10 college chiefs had collectively quit.
"The TU defied the SC´s order by charging even old Bachelors Level students with the hiked fees," NSU president Poudel told Republica. "Therefore, the TU should be brought to book for contempt of court."
In the mean time, student unions on Sunday barred all 10 college chiefs, who resigned jointly, from entering their offices. "As the TU has not accepted our resignations, it was our duty to regularly go to colleges as chiefs," Diwakar Pokharel, chief of Nepal Commerce Campus (NCC), who also resigned, told Republica.
"But students called us up over phones and told us to not go to colleges," he said. According to Pokharel, students have threatened them not go to colleges until the SC delivers its final verdict on their cases.
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