New Delhi, November 02, 2020: The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a plea challenging the conduct of BA LLB and BBA LLB examinations through physical mode on a petition urging the Court to set aside the notifications which according to the petitioners have ben issued in contrary to the guidelines issued by the Centre and the UGC.

The Delhi High Court division bench comprising Justices headed by the Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan while issuing notices has asked the Centre, Guru Gobind Singh IP University, Bar Council of India, University Grants Commission, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Amity University Noida to file their replies while listing the matter for next hearing on November 12.

Accordingly, The petition filed by a number of law students including Sudhanshu Kathuria has challenged the notifications of September 30 according to which the examinations for the regular, supplementary and other for BA LLB and BBA LLB courses have been scheduled to be held in physical mode from October 27, 2020. “The subsequent notification dated 20/10/2020 issuing the date sheet for the said examinations in physical mode and the notification dated 22/10/2020 rescheduling the examinations to be now held from 02/11/2020. The same are violative of the guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India qua conduct of examinations,” read the petition.

Pointing out the difficulties being faced by them the petitioners have submitted  that “there are serious issues that need to be taken into consideration such as rented accommodations for out-station students, Covi-19 guidelines, isolation rooms, level of examination keeping in mind the unprecedented global pandemic, mode of examination as online or offline mode and the financial burden on their families as the pandemic had resulted in laying-off, loss of income, loss of jobs and strains on family incomes across the country on top of the mental agony being caused to the students as a result of an overburdening curriculum.” 

Meanwhile, yesterday the Bar Council of India (BCI) had allowed law colleges to physically conduct examinations after receiving a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the respective State governments and State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) in view of the pandemic. It was also decided to make it optional for the students.

The Bar Council observed: “If physical exams as contemplated by the University is held with effect from 02.11.2020 and if the said exams are held without any penal consequences to any Student who is unable to appear in the said exam, no student shall be prejudiced or affected and they will get an opportunity to appear in the Exam again after physical reopening of the college/university as contemplated in the Circular/Press Release of the Bar Council of India dated 27.05.2020 and 09.06.2020 respectively, which was further clarified by the BCI Resolution dated 05.10.2020.”

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