No law faculty at Faculty of Law; Delhi HC agrees to hear PIL

The Delhi High Court yesterday agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking, inter alia, a direction to the Delhi University to fill up vacancies of teachers at Faculty of Law..A Division Bench of Justice Badar Durrez and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said that they will hear the matter on January 21..The PIL has been filed by one Ashok Kumar who is being represented by advocate SN Singh. Kumar has claimed in his petition that no appointments have been made to the Faculty of Law in the last decade. He has contended that vacancies which were advertised in 2007, 2009 and 2013 have not been filled up to date. Kumar has further alleged that the “teacher to student” ratio stands at 1:200 which is way below the 1:15 standard prescribed by the University Grants Commission and the Bar Council of India..He has also alleged that all vacancies were not advertised..Kumar has, therefore, sought a direction to the University to fill up all vacancies including positions which were not advertised..The petition has also sought the implementation of a 2009 resolution of the Executive Council of the University to integrate all the three law centres into one unit and to locate them in the newly constructed building in the North Campus. However, as per this report, this decision has already been made and the three law centres – Campus Law Centre, Law Centre – I and Law Centre – II will soon start functioning from a common building in the north campus..Image taken from here.