MUMBAI: The University of Mumbai (MU) has goofed up yet again, this time with the LLB question papers. Students of final year LLB — of three-year and five-year duration courses — were questioned on chapters that had been deleted from the syllabus in 2016.
The results of these final year Law papers would be declared shortly and students are clueless about whether they would get compensated for the out-of-syllabus questions.
This is their final year, and marks would decide their future prospects. Students tried talking to the vice-chancellor, but he was unavailable. According to the varsity’s circular on December 8, 2016, for the optional paper of ‘law relating to women and children’ for semester 6 of LLB (three-year course) and semester 10 (of the five-year course) the chapters ‘Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act, 2012’ and ‘Juvenile Justice Act, 2000’ was deleted. Even after this, a 14-marks question was asked based on these two chapters in the June examination. The questions included, “Who is the Juvenile under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000' and ‘Discuss the main provisions of Juvenile Act and Protection of Children Act’. A student said, “The questions from the old syllabus carried a total of 12+2 (14 marks) in the question paper, about which we had no clue.” According to officials, the chapters were deleted along with three other subjects to accommodate more options for students.
“After the examination, we tried meeting the vice-chancellor of MU, but he was unavailable. Later, we mailed him and are still awaiting reply,” said another student.
Sachin Pawar, president of the student’s law council said that the varsity’s treatment of students is sad. Vinod Malale, the deputy registrar and PRO (examinations) of MU, blamed the students, saying, “When they received the question paper and realised what had happened, they should have informed the supervisor. Now, we have finished assessment, what are we supposed to do? It is too late now.”
