Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday ordered the Bar Council of India to conduct an in-depth inquiry over University of Pune’s decision to allow law students with just 25% attendance to appear for term exams. A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice Amjad Sayed asked the BCI to take appropriate action and inform the court on December 6.
“We are concerned about the larger impact of the issue,’’ said the judges.
The University of Pune’s decision to allow law students who had attended just 25% of the lectures to appear for the term exams had sparked off a controversy. The varsity’s Ordinance 68 prescribes 75% attendance and a condonation of 20% in special circumstances. Even this rule, however, makes it mandatory for students to appear for a minimum of 46% of the lectures.
The Bar Council informed the court that as per its rules students who do not meet the minimum attendance of 66% prescribed under its rules can be barred from taking the Sanad
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