The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to intervene with the Delhi University’s choice to conduct on-line open-book examinations for the intermediate semester of its legislation course, which couldn’t be carried out final yr as a result of COVID-19, and mentioned that This won’t enable the scholars to set the situations. of the examination of knowledgeable course.
Hearing 4 petitions by the second and last yr college students of the Faculty of Law of Delhi University, a bench of Justice Prateek Jalan mentioned, “I am not going to allow the students to prescribe the conditions of examination of a professional course.”
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The courtroom refused to direct the college to conduct assignment-based examination and clarified that it could not substitute the stand taken by the college.
“The Court cannot give compulsory direction to the University to conduct assignment-based examination … The matter is the one which the University is authorized to consider. The Court cannot interfere with the policy decision of the University.”
The courtroom nonetheless requested the college to declare the outcomes of the examinations on the earliest.
Dean of the Faculty of Law Vandana instructed the courtroom that the examination into account is prone to be held in July itself and one other spherical of examination can be carried out in September for the good thing about college students unable to look within the first spherical.
Advocate Seema Dolo, showing for DU, submitted that as permitted by the Bar Council of India, the mode of examination whether or not on-line, offline, blended or project primarily based, was left to the discretion of the establishment involved.
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Advocate Siddharth Seem, who appeared as a last yr legislation pupil, argued that the web open e book examination for final yr’s intermediate semester II and IV was not within the curiosity of the scholars.
Pressing for an assignment-based examination, he identified that the dates for the web open e book examination could conflict with different entrance exams that last yr college students can take for additional research.
In this regard, the courtroom took on file the reassurance of Professor Vandana that so far as doable the datesheet could be determined maintaining in thoughts the dates of the doorway examinations. The courtroom mentioned that in any case, those that can not take the examination in July, they can provide it in September. The courtroom disposed of all of the 4 petitions.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
