Shifting Law college: Orders reserved

The division bench comprising Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice V Parthiban before whom lengthy arguments prevailed for the second day reserved orders without mentioning a date. However, the bench in an interim order directed the Bar Council of India to hold an inspection for grant of appropriate affiliation and inform the court about the outcome on Monday. 

The interim direction had come forth after Advocate General Vijay Narayan submitted the inspection had failed to transpire over the payment of affiliation fee to BCI. 

Earlier, senior counsel R Vaigai appearing on behalf of the students contended that the students are the stake holders and the whole process has transpired without them being consulted. She said the move would rob TN’s capital Chennai of a law college and argued that the state government had failed to apply its mind by shifting the college to districts outside Chennai, when the college could have been shifted within the city.

Advocate V Ragavachari also appearing for the students argued that owing to the shift the students would be deprived of the proximity to the MHC and other facilities like library and so on.

However, Advocate General appearing for the state cited the various judgments from 2007 that had insisted on the Madras Law College being shifted to a better campus. Pointing out that as much as Rs 117 crore has been spent in creating the colleges complete in all aspects with moot court halls and so on, he said even the national law schools in places like Bangalore and Hyderabad was situated at least two hours away from the High Court.