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Delhi High Court directive to Indraprastha University

Staff Reporter

To abide by Bar Council of India rules on attendance in law courses

NEW DELHI: A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has directed Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University to strictly adhere to the 66 per cent attendance rule as stipulated by the Bar Council of India for students pursuing law courses at the University.

Semester examinations

The direction, passed by a Bench comprising Chief Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna in March, came while disposing of a petition by a lecturer and a reader of the University who had alleged that it was sending students for semester examinations even when they had zero per cent attendance.

The High Court had also directed the University to file an action taken report within two weeks.

In its action taken report, the University told the Court that students who failed to meet the 70 per cent attendance requirements had been detained from taking the semester end examination of May 2007 and the same was the case with the December 2007 examination.

The Court was further told out of a total of 289 students, 269 fulfilled the attendance criteria. The remaining 20 were detained from appearing in the examination.

The High Court had also asked the University to consider setting up a grievance redress committee that should look into the issues of attendance requirements and similar matters, which the University readily accepted.

T. N. Arora, Reader at the School of Law and Legal Studies, and Ravindra Pratap, lecturer, had filed the petition before the High Court alleging that the University was flouting the rules set by Bar Council of India, particularly the attendance rule.

Law school

The petitioners had alleged that since the establishment of the law school in 2001 the University had been violating the standards.

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