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NALSAR student body challenges BCI’s batch-wide enrolment restriction
NALSAR University of Law’s Student Bar Council has condemned the Bar Council of India’s initial restriction on enrolment of the outgoing 2026 batch with State Bar Councils. In a statement issued after…
The Story in Brief
NALSAR University of Law’s Student Bar Council has condemned the Bar Council of India’s initial restriction on enrolment of the outgoing 2026 batch with State Bar Councils. In a statement issued after midnight on August 14, the council said provisions of the Advocates Act cited by BCI chairman and BJP MP Manan Kumar Mishra do not permit restricting an entire graduating batch.
The council also called the BCI’s reliance on the Supreme Court’s Harish Uppal judgment misplaced, saying Section 49 only grants rule-making power and cannot create new enrolment disabilities. It raised privacy concerns over identifying students, faculty, alumni and others, and invoked constitutional protections for dissent and peaceful protest. It sought an apology from Mishra.
The Indian Opinion
Claims that student protest automatically justifies collective professional punishment are as sweeping as claims that institutional authority can never regulate entry into the legal profession. The immediate test is legal: whether the BCI can point to a clear statutory provision authorising a batch-wide restriction, rather than relying on a general rule-making power. The treatment of personal data and the final enrolment decision will also matter.
Source: thehindu.com
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