Why allow law colleges without facilities to run: SC asks Govt

While pulling up the Government for granting permission to a number of law colleges in the country to run without basic...

While pulling up the Government for granting permission to a number of law colleges in the country to run without basic infrastructural facilities,the SC on Monday also took the Bar Council of India (BCI) to task for delay in taking up the matter.

Its strange that you are granting permission even for those law colleges which are run in basements and on rooftops and do not have libraries or faculties? You are playing with the lives of the students, observed a vacation bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Asok Kumar Ganguly.

The apex court made the remarks while dealing with an appeal filed by the BCI challenging a direction passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court to grant admission to Bonnie Foi Law College.

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Despite the BCIs refusal to accord recognition to the college for non-fulfilment of certain conditions,the High Court had directed grant of recognition on the basis of a report submitted by a two-member advocate committee appointed by it. On BCIs appeal,the apex court last year had stayed the high court order.

As the matter came up for hearing on Monday,the Bench told counsel Sanjeev Sachdeva,So you (BCI) have woken up finally. We are going to take up this matter because it involves a larger issue of infrastructure and other facilities in the law colleges. The Bench asked the A-G to assist the court in the matter which was posted for further hearing at a later date.