Delay in first-year law admissions after errors in seat allotment list

MUMBAI: The state common entrance test (CET) cell on Thursday postponed the announcement of first seat allotment list for Bachelor of Law (LLB) aspirants by a day after it received complaints of errors in students information. CET cell has sought help from a third party, who audited the information shared by students at the time of registration. A new list for the five-year course will be released on February 6, said officials.

“The IT firm which is working with us to conduct admissions to law courses, both three years and five years, had stored all information of candidates based on the information shared at the time of registration. However, there were complaints of students’ information either going missing from the final form or showing wrong information, due to which we had to delay the seat allotment list by a day,” said a senior official from state CET cell.

He added that errors were rectified on Thursday and a fresh list for LLB (five-year law course) will be uploaded on CET website on Saturday morning. Work on LLB (three-year course) candidate information is still in process, and the seat allotment list will be released soon, said officials.

In December, the registration process for most professional courses had to be delayed by a few weeks to give students time to make necessary changes to their admission form after the state government decided to continue admissions without the inclusion of SEBC quota.