Scrap MU circular on law exams: PIL

Mumbai: A city-based advocate and law professor has filed a PIL in the Bombay high court seeking to quash and set aside a circular dated May 18, 2018, issued by the University of Mumbai (MU), which gives law colleges the right to conduct exams by themselves in absence of university guidelines. According to the petitioner, if colleges conduct exams then it would not be favourable in the long run to the process of creating quality students of law.

Advocate Dipak Kumar Chattopadhyay has filed the PIL in which he has stated that on May 18, the MU has issued a circular by which it has changed the practice of evaluation of law papers semester examination by the law colleges.

According to Mr Chattopadhyay till now the practice for checking of examination papers was that the university used to scan all the answer sheets and used to forward them, via computer, to different law colleges. In this practice answer sheets of students were not forwarded to their own colleges.

However, by the recent circular the MU has modified the above system and has permitted the law colleges to conduct their semester exams and evaluate answer sheets of their own students. “This will lead to production of substandard legal professionals in the legal profession, which should not be allowed or encouraged,” read the petition.