India, Nov. 4 -- The Kerala high court on Tuesday struck down an interim order passed by a single-judge bench that permitted 16 suspended students of the Students Federation of India (SFI) to appear for examinations beginning November 4 at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit.

The students have moved the Supreme Court against the high court's decision.

The division bench of justices Anil K Narendran and Muralee Krishna S on Tuesday allowed the appeal filed by the university challenging the single judge's interim order. The university contended that the suspended students lacked the requisite attendance to appear for the examinations and had not cleared their internal exams.

The students, belonging to the SFI, were suspended on...