Attendance Shortfall Case: DU Agrees To Declare Results Of Students Within Next Three Days [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Delhi University’s Law Faculty to declare within three days the results of students who were allowed to sit for their semester exams on court orders due to a shortage of attendance and ordered that those who have failed can take supplementary examinations to be conducted soon.The Bench comprising Chief Justice and Justice V. Kameswar Rao issued. The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Delhi University’s Law Faculty to declare within three days the results of students who were allowed to sit for their semester exams on court orders due to a shortage of attendance and ordered that those who have failed can take supplementary examinations to be conducted soon. The Court was hearing petitions challenging the judgment passed last month, wherein Justice Rekha Palli had quashed the list issued by the Faculty of Law, DU, of students detained for not meeting the prescribed attendance while directing the institution to hold within 8 weeks at least 139 hours of extra classes/tutorials for all those students desirous of attending the same and making up for the shortfall in their attendance. The the impugned judgment was pronounced with a view to balance the mandate of Bar Council of India Rules and the students’ “legitimate expectations” of a fixed academic schedule, after the Court found that the shortfall in the students’ attendance had been caused only due to the faculty’s failure to hold the mandatory minimum number of class hours in compliance with the BCI Rules.