26/09/2014
Bar Council is responsible for spoiling the career of thousands of law students by not taking timely action against the college/institution/university imparting legal education including DU. The Bar council of India is the supreme body to formulate rules with reference to standards of legal education. In 1975 the BCI had formulated Rules which required law students to put in 66% attendance. In consonance with the said rules DU formulated the attendance rule requiring law students to put in 66% attendance in aggregate.
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posted by the undersigned was taken into note by the BCI but my question to the BCI would be as to why this action was not taken well in time, whether the BCI was powerless or there had been gross negligence on the part of the BCI to derecognize all such institutions who had not obtained fresh affiliation of approval from the BCI under rules of Legal education, 2008 (ROLE, 2008) even after Legal Education Committees decision and public notice that imparting Legal Education without obtaining fresh approval of affiliation from BCI under ROLE, 2008. Now when thousand of students have already passed out under a bonafide impression that DU is imparting legal education as per the BCI norms and is having proper affiliation from the BCI, this de-recognition by the BCI has left them in void. All the colleges/institutions/universities were called upon to take fresh affiliation but most of them including DU failed to do so but no timely action was taken against them by the BCI. The DU is a statutory body and carrying out an important public function by imparting legal education as such it was duty bound to have obtained fresh approval of affiliation under the ROLE, 2008 from the BCI but by not doing so they have spoiled the career of thousands of students and have put there labor, time, aspiration and money at stake. The DU was also required to ensure implementation of ROLE, 2008 which Inter alia provides that no student who has failed to put in 70% attendance in a subject shall not be allowed to take examination in that subject but DU is permitting the students who are having 66% in aggregate to take the end semester examination and thereby openly violating the ROLE, 2008 formulated by the BCI.
It is high time for the Supreme Court of India to take sue motto cognizance of the matter and to interpret the Rule 12 of the ROLE, 2008; to fix responsibility of all those officials of the BCI and that of DU who were responsible for ensuring the timely compliance of ROLE, 2008; to take suitable action for spoiling the career of thousands of students and to find out some suitable way out to save the career of these students.
Kindly join me and strengthen my hands in fighting against the atrocities committed by the BCI and the DU whereby they have spoiled the career of thousands of students.
Anil Kumar Yadav
Chairman, Disciplinary Committee
Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana
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