Plea challenges attendance policy of Amity Law School

NEW DELHI: A petition challenging the attendance policy of Amity Law School has been filed in the Delhi high court.

The plea comes in the backdrop of the suicide by a student, allegedly for being debarred from sitting in exams due to shortage in attendance.

The petition claimed that the institute had ‘arbitrarily departed’ from the stipulated requirement of having 75% aggregate attendance in all courses and was insisting upon 75% in each subject.

The petition will be heard on September 5.

The petition said that Clause 9.1 of the Ordinance adopted under the Indraprastha Vishwavidyalaya Act, 1998, provides that a student is required to have minimum attendance of 75% or more in the aggregate of all courses taken together in a semester.

The petitioner, a lawyer, has accused Amity Law School Delhi (ALSD), of compelling students to give an undertaking that if their attendance fell below 75% in any subject, they would not be allowed to appear in the term-end examination.

It alleged that ALSD has “arbitrarily adopted policy of debarring students who have less than 50% physical attendance, even if aggregate attendance after taking into account regularisation of attendance on legitimate grounds may be within the prescribed norms.” HTC

THE PETITION SAID THAT A STUDENT MUST HAVE 75% ATTENDANCE IN THE AGGREGATE OF ALL COURSES RATHER THAN INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTS