High Court Refuses To Interfere In Delhi University’s Decision To Hold Law Exams

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court said on Monday that it would not allow students to dictate terms of examination of a professional course and refused to interfere in the Delhi University’s decision to conduct an online open-book exam for intermediate semesters of its law course.

The law exams of the varsity were scheduled for 2020, but could not be conducted due to the COVID surge across the country.

“I am not going to allow students to dictate the terms of exams of a professional course,” Justice Prateek Jalan’s bench was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. The bench was hearing four petitions by students of the second and final year of Faculty of Law, Delhi University.

The court refused to pass a judgement to the university to hold an assignment-based examination instead. It also clarified that it would not substitute the stand taken by the varsity.

“Court can’t give mandatory direction to the university to conduct assignment based examination… The matter is one which university is authorised to consider. University’s policy decision can’t be interfered with by court,” the single-judge bench said.

However, the court asked the university to announce the examination results as expeditiously as possible, reported the agency.

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