450 law students Congress smells a barred from exams rat in CCTV tender

NEW DELHI: At least 450 students from Delhi University’s Law Faculty have been detained due to short attendance following which a section of the students held a protest on Wednesday against the administration.

The Law Faculty on Tuesday announced the detention list stopping 457 students from the first, second and third-year from writing the exams. The semester exams are starting on May 14.

According to Bar Council rules, a student needs to have at least 70% mandatory attendance to be able to sit for the exams.

The protest was led by the RSSbacked Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

They demanded that admit cards should be given to students after they take an undertaking to complete their attendance in the next semester.

Bharat Khatana, a first-year student and ABVP member, claimed some classes could not be held when teachers were being appointed during January and February.

“The first and second-year students can be allowed to write exams after making them sign a bond that they will cover up their attendance in the next semester. And for third-year students, it is about their career so those with borderline attendance shortage should be allowed to sit for the exams,” he said.

Students claimed that they were not given any notice about the attendance shortage. “The centre should inform students some months in advance about how short their attendance is,” said Saquib, a first-year student.

Dean, Law Faculty, Ved Kumari said only those students who did not fulfil the attendance requirement were detained. “Bar Council rules require 70% attendance. If students don’t attend classes and have short attendance then they cannot be allowed to give the exams,” Kumari said.

Kumari refuted allegations that students were not informed about their short attendance in advance. “Students are informed every month about their attendance status,” she said. NEWDELHI: The Congress has said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had given tenders for installing CCTV cameras to a public sector undertaking having a tie-up with a private company, which the government wanted to favour. Addressing the press on Wednesday, former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said terms and conditions of the bidding were modified in violation of general financial rules to extend benefit to a particular company. Former ministers Haroon Yusuf and Dr AK Walia were present at the briefing.

“The tender was brought with restricted norms as they could keep away other interested bidders. All this was done to extend benefit to a particular private company,” Lovely said. “Why was the government insisting on central government’s PSU while the state government has about 40 companies capable of doing the same job?” said Lovely.

AAP’S Saurabh Bhardwaj said the Congress must answer why majority of tenders were given to this same PSU when the party were in power at the Centre.