Mumbai University (MU) has confirmed withdrawing its July 5, 2021, circular that stated cancelling of results of LLB programme announced on May 22, 2020. The circular was based on the Bar Council of India (BCI) directions to conduct an ‘assignment-based evaluation’.
After the Bombay high court slammed the BCI for its new directives to MU, the BCI told the court that its new directives to conduct end term exams will apply prospectively.
The BCI's advocate Amit Sale told a bench of Justices Riyaz Chagla and Ramesh Dhanuka, “It will not be applicable retrospectively. It will apply prospectively."
The petition was filed by a final-year student of the government law college that results declared last year should not be cancelled to substitute with assignment based evaluation that required submitting ten assignments within 21 days that too without any online classes. The petitioner's advocate had said that neither MU nor the BCI is empowered to give such directions to cancel the already declared results last year and MU's circular is “arbitrary and unreasonable”.
MU’s advocate Ashutosh Kulkarni had said that out of 10,000 students only the petitioner has a problem with the assignment based evaluation and the time limit of submitting the assignment. However, the court had said a “prima facie view” the results already declared can not be cancelled and it directed BCI to either consider or else the court will issue a stay on the MU circular.
The Bombay high court has stated that results declared on the basis of internal evaluation and previous scores would stand restored.
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