Delhi varsity told to shut down evening law colleges

“Taking into account that proper quality of legal education cannot be ensured if classes are run during evening and night hours, the Bar Council of India has taken a policy decision to dispense with the evening colleges. “Two of your law colleges are offering classes beyond 9 pm which is in violation of the BCI directive... whatever may have been the reason for running these colleges, the same cannot be permitted hence forth,” a BCI communication sent to DU said. The BCI also asked DU to issue a notification stating that no admissions be made for evening classes from next year. 

In an unprecedented move, the BCI, the apex regulatory body for legal education and legal profession in India, had in 2014 decided to derecognise DU’s law course after it failed to seek timely extension of the affiliation of its three centres, namely Campus Law Centre, Law Centre-I and Law Centre-II.

However, it was granted a provisional extension of affiliation for the 2014-15 session after DU had proposed to shift to a new building which it claimed “had adequate space” for the faculty to run properly.