Delhi High Court Directs BCI To Constitute Special Teams For Conducting Surprise Visits To Law Colleges, Shut Those Lacking Minimum Infra
Case: New Millennium Education Society & Anr V. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University & Anr
Coram: Justice Chandra Dhari Singh
Case No.: W.P.(C) 7329/2018
Court Observation: “If any colleges upon such inspection are found to be lacking minimum infrastructural facilities, then the BCI must take immediate steps to close such colleges. This is a much-needed therapy that ought to be introduced to cure the maladies that legal education is suffering from,”
“There are law colleges where you may not have sufficient faculty, no classrooms, no library, etc. It is unfortunate that this Court is being constrained to remark that there are law colleges where you have to just go and pay the fees, the rest is taken care off. It is surprising to state that how can a legal profession or how can we as stakeholders of legal education tolerate this kind of situation. It is a great responsibility cast upon the Bar Council of India to shut down such institutions,”
“Therefore, any attempts at commercialisation of education especially that of legal education while imperilling the qualitative imparting of education must be derided and frowned upon,”
“The fact that the request of the Revised Building Plan is still pending with the concerned authority does not act to the advantage of the petitioner. Until and unless the sanction is granted for the desired purpose, the petitioner is not allowed to use the same for any other purpose except car parking,”
“However, it is made clear that this Court is conscious of the fact that vide the interim orders passed by this Court in the past, the students in addition to the sanctioned capacity were admitted in the previous academic sessions. Therefore, notwithstanding the question of legality of the additional seats as being claimed by the Petitioner Institute for previous academic sessions, this Court, in the best interest of the students already admitted and other stakeholders, does not intend to interfere with their admission.”
“No such benefit shall be allowed for the Academic Session 2022-23, and only admission to 85 Seats already allotted by the Respondent University shall be done by the petitioner institute in its BA LLB Course,”
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Constitute Special Teams, Law Colleges
