NLIU to check 8,000 degrees for irregularities

BHOPAL: Over 8,000 mark sheets and degrees issued to students of the National Law Institute University (NLIU) between 2003 and 2015 will be scrutinised after a probe report found irregularities in handing over degrees, university officials said on Thursday.

NLUI is reputed to be one of the top law colleges in central India. The university started issuing degrees in 2003.

A university official said the report stated degrees had been issued to students that had failed their course and even those who were absent for their exam. Some who received such degrees went on to work in the lower judiciary.

“The most shocking thing was that students, who were found absent in the attendance register, received passing marks in the result and later, they also received degrees. Over writing was also found in the papers,” the report stated.

NLIU registrar Girijabala Singh said, “This is a very serious matter. The credibility and integrity of NLIU is at stake. To clear all the doubts from the minds of people, the administration has decided to scrutinise the mark sheets and degrees of all the passed-out students.”

Allegations of irregularities came up in 2016 when several students complained to the chief justice of Madhya Pradesh that degrees of NLIU were being sold.