New Delhi: The Delhi high court has directed the Delhi University (DU) and its law faculty to admit an additional 301 students in its three-year LLB course this academic session.
A bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C. Hari Shankar issued this direction on a plea by a group of students, who alleged that the varsity and its faculty of law in particular did not adhere to the high court’s direction.
The high court agreed with the claim of the students that the DU and its law faculty did not place the correct position before the high court on June 28 when it directed the university to admit 2,310 students in the LLB course this year as has been done for the past nine years since 2008.
On June 28, the university and the law faculty informed the high court that only a total of 2,310 students were being admitted since the year 2008 to the LLB course offered at three law centres of the university.
The students, who appeared for the LLB entrance exam this year but could not get admission, claimed in their application that 2,611 seats, including 301 supernumerary ones for reserved category students, are made available every year in the law course.
However, this year, the supernumerary seats were included in the 2,310 seats for which admissions were carried out, the students’ application filed in the high court through advocate Vivek Chib contended.
The petition also contended that the university and the faculty of law had placed incorrect facts before the high court that under the past practice only 2,310 students were admitted to the law course every year.
Agreeing with the submission made on behalf of the students, the high court bench directed the university and the law faculty to admit 301 supernumerary candidates over and above the 2,310 seats.
