In a fresh trouble for Delhi University's Faculty of Law, a Bar Council of India panel has recommended its closure after it found lack of infrastructure and other irregularities in the functioning of the department.
The DU authorities, however, maintained that the needful is being done and the irregularities if any will be sorted out before commencement of new session in August this year.
"We are of the firm view that the Campus Law Centre should be closed down, but seeing the career of the students as well as the reputation of the university, a lenient view may be taken by the Legal Education Committee," says a report of BCI panel, which conducted an inspection of the DU's Law faculty.
The panel said faculty was in news last September when BCI, the apex regulatory body for legal education and the legal profession in India, chose to derecognise DU's law course after the varsity failed to seek timely extension of the affiliation of its three centres namely - Campus Law Centre, Law Centre-I and Law Centre-II.
In its reply to the court, the DU had proposed to shift to a new building which it claimed "had adequate space" for the faculty to run properly.
It also criticised the functioning of the Dean, saying, he did not update the varsity's central office about the issues.
"Bar Council from its record found that all the three Law Centres have never been inspected so far. It is extremely regrettable that absolutely no efforts have been made for developing the infrastructure despite clear BCI rules," it adds.
Dean of DU Law faculty, Ashwini Kumar Bansal told PTI that the varsity is on the job and confident that the issue will be sorted soon.
"We are ready with are our response to the show cause notice as well and will send it to BCI within the deadline," he said.
Mr Bansal, however, denied that the Vice Chancellor wasn't being updated on the happenings at the Law faculty.
"VC was seized of the matter. Some vested interests are trying to create discord between DU Law faculty and BCI but we will work it out soon and maintain the standards of education imparted at DU," he added.
Among the alumni of the DU law faculty are eminent figures like Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, former HRD minister Kapil Sibal, Supreme Court Judge Rohinton Nariman, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi.
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