The Calcutta high court has today issued an interim stay in the writ petition challenging the state government’s 30% domicile reservation at NUJS Kolkata.
It is understood that the two-judge division bench headed by Justice IP Mukherjee said today that the admissions at NUJS Kolkata should remain subject to the writ petition.
The judges also directed the single-judge bench hearing the case to rule on the petition in several weeks (we were not able to confirm the exact timeline ordered by the court, as the written order is awaited; we will update the article with more details when this becomes available).
Update 19:32: The Calcutta HC order is now out and available here. No strict timeline was mentioned in the written order, but the judges said: “We request the learned Single Judge to hear out the writ application as expeditiously as possible after exchange of affidavits.”
Clarification 23:21: The text of the full order is short of an outright stay, though in effect it appears to have the result of staying admissions depending on the outcome of the case. The judges noted: “… we are not minded to keep this appeal pending and delay adjudication of the main lis. In those circumstances, we dispose of this appeal by observing that the subject admission will abide by the result of the writ application.”
Update 1 October, 11:58: The Times of India Calcutta edition carried a quote from NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor (VC) Prof Nirmal Kanti Chakraborty, saying: “We will start our admissions on October 9 as we have been directed.” While the VC does not mention reservations in his quote, the article itself stated that the division bench order “allowed NUJS to start its admissions process keeping the 30% domicile quota”.
The petition has been filed by two Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirants from Uttar Pradesh, who are represented by advocate Fauzia Shakil and was argued by advocate Rohit Das (both are NUJS LLB graduates).
The single-judge bench of Justice Debangsu Basak, which was hearing the case had declined to pass any interim orders, according to LiveLaw on 16 September, after which the petitioners approached the division bench.
NLSIU reservation struck down yesterday: What does this mean for NLUs?
The Karnataka high court had yesterday struck down NLSIU Bangalore’s 25% domicile reservation.
The judgment in that case could be a landmark, however, it has not yet been uploaded on the high court’s website.
Update 17:37: Read the judgment here or the embed below.
Whenever the judgment is available for eading, the devil will lie in the details.
Furthermore, it was exceedingly likely that the Karnataka government would appeal the high court’s decision to the Supreme Court, according to four sources we spoke to, who are familiar with the case and subject matter.
If so, and depending on what happens in the Calcutta high court with NUJS, we could be seeing a landmark case in the apex court that might decide once and for all how and whether the states hosting national law universities (NLUs) can impose domicile reservations.
NLU Delhi’s 50% reservation, for instance, had been stayed for this year in late June, as it had become a trend for state governments to reserve seats for their respective electorates.
Is NLSIU more special than other NLUs?
According to several lawyers with knowledge of the cases, the law in this area is not entirely settled.
According to LiveLaw, the Bangalore-based bench had said yesterday:
The amendment is ultra vires to the act. The State government has no State and has no direct say in the functioning of the law school. It is an autonomous institute and not aided by the state government…
If we allow this thing (state reservation) to be done virtually there will be two centers of control, one with executive council and other by state which will be an unhealthy trend… By the impugned amendment what is sought to be created is a state quota which is not permissible.
NLSIU is on par with AIIMS, IIT and IIM, where there is no reservation quota… This law school is not on par with other law schools. Other schools are giving reservations thus it is not necessary that Karnataka must also do it.
Other law schools came up with reservations as students were not getting in Karnataka school under the 80 seats quota.
NLSIU, of course, is a somewhat special case as being the first national law school established in India via a superhuman effort of the late Prof Madhava Menon, sometimes known as the godfather of modern Indian legal education, and the late senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, who was at that time chairman of the Bar Council of India (BCI).
(Jethmalani also incidentally held the record as the longest-serving BCI chairman, which has in the last few months probably been eclipsed by BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, subject to how you count a gap in his tenure).
The case in Karnataka was filed on behalf of NLS alumni and lawyers Satyajit Sarna and Nikhil Singhvi, argued by fellow alumnus and advocate CK Nandakumar.
We understand that one of the arguments made against the NLS quota had relied on the fact that the BCI had been more closely involved in its founding, as well as in its establishing National Law School of India Act 1986, resulting in the formation of a society and trust. The statement of objects and reasons of the Act records:
To carry out that object the Bar Council of India created a charitable trust called the Bar Council of India Trust which in turn registered a Society known as the National Law School of India Society, in Karnataka. The Society framed necessary rules to manage the National Law School of India with powers to confer degrees,
diplomas, etc., and requested the State Government to assist it, by establishing the School as a University by a statue so that it could carry out its objects effectively. The State Government considers it desirable to encourage the establishment of such a national level institution in the State
That said, the BCI’s relevance in the functioning of NLS nowadays is probably no greater or more important than it is at most other NLUs.
How special are other NLUs
By way of example, NUJS Kolkata - also founded by Madhava Menon - in its 1999 establishing Act makes explicit references to NLSIU:
WHEREAS the Committee appointed by the Chief Justices’ Conference on Legal Education and Training (1993) has recommended the establishment in each State of an institution on the model of the National Law School of India University at Bangalore;
AND WHEREAS the All India Law Ministers’ Conference (1995) has resolved to set up in each State a Law School modeled on the lines of the National Law School of India University at Bangalore for improving the quality of professional legal education.
The argument advanced by the petitioners in the Calcutta high court is therefore quite similar, at least in part, namely that NUJS too was fundamentally at its founding intended to be modelled on NLS.
We understand that the arguments in the Calcutta high court (as well as partly in Bangalore) also included the following contentions:
- both NLSIU and NUJS were not in fact mostly dependent on state funds but most of their costs were actually funded by student tuition fees,
- under Article 14, it would be discriminatory to distinguish between applicants to the NLUs on the basis of their residence (and in the NUJS case, in particular, domicile was defined very vaguely), and
- that the West Bengal state government did not advance any reasons or apparently do any research about whether the reservation would meet certain aims compatible with Article 14.
Only medical case law so far
The main case law from the Supreme Court in college and state domicile reservations are Dr Pradeep Jain Etc vs UOI (1984) and the older DP Joshi
vs the State of Madhya Pradesh from 1955.
However, both of those are about medical colleges and though both have some things in common, doctoring is a somewhat different profession than lawyering.
Furthermore, institutions such as the All India Insitutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were established by a central government act.
IITs are more similar to NLUs from that perspective.
The most likely destination in all the NLU petitions seems to be the Supreme Court, as state governments are unlikely to take adverse judgments such as the Bangalore one lying down.
If the Calcutta high court decides similarly, or even if it doesn’t, the Supreme Court might then very well decide that this is not just an NLS issue but one that concerns all the NLUs.
If that happens, we might end up with all dozens of state governments as parties, alongside the law schools themselves, and the CLAT consortium.
If so, that case could take a long time to finish (and the current NLS judgment could become the status quo at Bangalore, without domicile reservations for now).
NLS Domicile Reservations Judgment
Many thanks for all interest and tips regarding this story from readers. We will update this story when the NUJS order and NLS judgment are out.
Comments
Top 4 is worst for us......
They’re gonna bring the glory home babyy
(https://www.nls.ac.in/about/nlsiu-statute/)
P.S. I thought I will make a joke about your university, turns out your university beat me to it.
https://www.nls.ac.in/about/about-nlsiu/
Look under 'Governance' in this link: https://www.nls.ac.in/about/about-nlsiu/
Undoubtedly
nujs order
NLSIU's argument that it was created by the BCI and is autonomous and independent from the State Government is true, and that does make it different from all other NLUs. Like it or not, the other NLUs were created by the respective States and those governments retained a measure of control over the NLUs. The Karnataka HC judgment makes this quite clear.
http://www.kundaliaassociates.com/profile.html
2 alumni representing students for removing the domicile quota and 1 alumni representing nujs arguing in support of quota.(assuming ki that comment was true)
Well looks like alumni vs alumni, both in a way working for thier alma mater
Last time a VC [...]. Then the cat dragged in someone....and down we went the rabbit hole
By the way someone in another post (possibly the CLAT story) said that s/he has the draft of NUJS' response for Cal HC. Apparently, Kian had to do a story before that cat was let out of the bag. So what is NUJS' position? Kian did you get an advance copy of that "document"?
Now, NUJS has apparently "won" the case in Cal HC. Justice Bobby Saraf, NLS'96 was the judge.
But what does this win entail? IT will return Rs 4.64 crores? By when? Likely that IT will appeal. What about the appeal in ITAT Kolkata?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejasvi_Surya
2. His mentor and patron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._L._Santhosh
And that's how the cookie really crumbled https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/bsys-conflict-with-his-party-expands-a-tv-sting-in-the-mix-2302636
Then again, what do I know. Messiah Messiah
And while the division bench never outright ordered a stay in court or in the written order, in practice it seems to allow only one interpretation: if the single judge were to eventually stay or strike down the quota and NUJS has already completed admission of 33% domicile candidates, it would be impossible for "the subject admission [to] abide by the result of the writ application", as the division bench had ordered (at least without rescinding offers and throwing the entire process into chaos).
That said, starting admissions without the quota would probably not be possible either, since the single judge might uphold the reservation, which would also cause problems with the seat list.
In short, it does appear to be a de facto stay and one that could delay the entire CLAT admissions process if it's not disposed of promptly. Happy to hear thoughts on this...
NKC is that sheep who got the lion.
The DB order is available on the Cal HC website. Wonder how/why BB and LI and even Kian cannot find it. I read it just now before writing this.
https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/challenge-against-nujs-30-domicile-reservation-calcutta-hc-division-bench-refuses-to-interfere-with-single-bench-order-rejecting-plea-for-interim-order-163776
Dunno who drew first blood but NKC is cross with govt asking inconvenient questions. Initially, NKC tried the excuse that he cannot be held responsible for the sins of PIB. But two problems cropped up. First, some of his acolytes were part of that PIB mess and second, NKC went ahead and committed his own acts of omission and commission.
So, now more inquiries have been ordered. Kian, this is true. Please check with your sources in NUJS. There are more elements than just Jal Vayu.
- Full name of NUJS is West Bengal NUJS.
- Chancellor of Law School is CJI, NUJS is state Chief Justice.
- Law School AC/EC has Supreme Court judges, Central Govt Law Officers and top Senior Advocates in Delhi, NUJS only has local people
- State quota is followed in admission, e.g. WB OBC, WB SC/ST
- Domicile quota has existed even before the 30%.
- Faculty is totally local in character.
Please do not try and make a crow into a swan.
AC and EC have participants from outside state
Faculty is about 33% local
I believe there was 10% domicile quota introduced in the time of Bhat in lieu of extra land provided by state govt
Nujs also has SC judges in its council though they are less in number as compared to nls, others members are also good, like IIM C director was/is there in a council. Do not know if anyone is from delhi.
What's the issue with faculty being local ? so if VC of nls is from karnataka (idk if he is) then he is local.
1. After SC, the culture of sealed envelopes has struck NUJS via VC. Fine bring the Inquiry Report directly to the EC. And then, simply read out select portions in a way that the EC takes a decision that is VC-convenient? Nobody else gets to read in the EC. Nobody else gets a copy after the EC. Nobody else gets a copy in the next EC as well. If requested, VC slinks away or stonewalls through abuse of authority.
2. IT Dept demands Rs 7.71 crores in unpaid taxes for AY 2016-17. Freezes accounts and takes away Rs 4.64 crores (as per VC). Proper paperwork not presented before EC.
3. More than Rs 4.2 crores refunded to UGC from just Plan XI grants disbursed in 2011-12. Refund late by more than 5 years. NKC takes no action to identify lapses and fix responsibility
4. Same story for lapse in renewing BCI affilaition since 2011.
5. Concerned committee approves 10 teaching positions following roster/reservation per UGC and state rules. NKC unilaterally advertises for 16 positions and that too in variance with UGC and state rules. UNiv gong through financial distress but NKC advertises for additional admin positions without any good reason being discussed in the EC. Recruitment is a great way to settle IoUs now that Annexe Building funds may not come through.
6. Distance Education Inquiry quietly killed off. Refunds authorized by Delhi HC in Jan 2020 not processed. Attempt to restart distance education masked as "evening courses' by "univ faculty"
7. Covering up crores in over payments to admin staff members. Did you know that a DEO earns around a lac/month, if not more here. If NKC is so transparent and nice, why not ask him to upload the data as many univs do? Also why is he being secretive about EC/FC/AC agenda notes and minutes that used to get uploaded by Lord Taluk and Sensational after a bitter fight with SJA?
8. Pointing out how rules are bent, waylaid and even "manufactured" to shelter and protect VC acolytes.
2. Income tax is old news. NUJS has won even the appeal and the high court proceedings earlier. Refund would be made. What paperwork is the EC supposed to look at? It is not an audit committee. Are you suggesting that the IT Department gave cut money to the administration? Given your lack of sense, you might.
3 and 4. Identification of lapse of previous regime has been done, BCI application has been filed. What else is the current administration going to do after 9 years? Not being competent enough to spend money isn't a criminal action. You are clearly an insider, so if you want to bring charges against anybody who is still there, have you written a single complaint officially instead of anonymously venting here? It is clear that PIB administration is responsible. What good does it do to the university now that he's safe and sound away at KSLU? BCI affiliation has been renewed and the UGC funds can't be brought back under law.
5. The fact that you are actually opposing faculty recruitment despite the rising student teacher ratio just to drive your own agenda indicates your mentality. In any other university, faculty recruitment is actually welcomed.
6. There had never been any legal bar to the university offering its own courses. It is just a story concocted by the likes of you who aren't competent enough to design or run courses and know that the university running courses to make profit would mean less dependence on the state. You clearly lack the education to differentiate between online courses and weekend classes for offline courses. The only course restarting is one required by the central law ministry, but you obviously know more law than others.
7. DEOs getting paid more than a lakh a month? Are you using the weed from Chingri? Which NLU have you seen to upload the salary statements of all its employees on the public domain? File an RTI if you want that data.
8. Nice and vague insinuation without any actual fact or proof.
You want to carry out an anti-NKC campaign, I've got no beef with that. Try not to drag the university along with you through the mud in the process, though people like you aren't loyal to anyone other than their own selves.
Then NKC again suffered selective amnesia and skipped mentioning this bit in the latest EC minutes.
Congratulations on the ITAT win that was secured only yesterday. Please correct the timeline claim. I wouldn't know about a "win" in Calcutta HC. That website shows a hearing was scheduled for March 11. But nothing further is available. Someone here requested Kian to get info from NKC. But the VC is busy and you are his oracle, so just start. EC has powers and duties of supervision. Just because it isn't hollering for relevant records, it doesn't mean that the papers need to remain with the skeletons in the cupboards. Actually, what does this say about NKC and the folks that help prepare the "agenda"?
I agree it isn't exactly criminal to quietly "idle" away more than Rs 4.2 crores of UGC grants, which should have been refunded back 5-6 years ago. Sure NKC cannot be blamed for the sins of PIB. But NKC knew about all this in July-Aug 2019. Why wait for some more months to inform the FC and EC? Also are you sure that the correct amounts have been refunded to UGC? Also, will NKC mind if the UGC were to conduct audits etc?
BCI affiliation renewal. Another PIB sin. NKC solves this too. Yay. Did he tell this to CLAT as soon he came to know about it. BCI has not renewed the affiliation, yet. It likely will although similar infractions are given harsher treatment by BCI. Perks of being NLU. But tell me, why does NKC secure the AC and EC approval for a lucrative BCI Bridge Course for foreign qualified lawyers and then belatedly inform EC about lack of BCI affiliation? What is this furtiveness betraying?
Faculty recruitment. Definitely attract and retain talent. Seriously, just boldly go ahead and challenge some UGC rules. After all NKC is Midas right now. But the EC saw how NKC quietly tried to give out of turn 7th CPC arrears to a faculty member who came through custom made interview process (once caught NKC submitted a report against such a move); then tried to promote an Assistant Prof based on dodgy papers despite being cautioned; then tried to kill off the inquiry and now when the Inquiry has produced adverse findings concluding that the promotion needs to be cancelled, NKC is still trying to protect the acolyte in question. As state above, NKC has avoided sharing an Inquiry Report concerning 2017 faculty recruitment. Why? If NKC feels that his unilateral move to open more teaching positions is good in law etc then why is he being so stealthy? Why does he wilt when questioned in the EC? Do we really want a PIB re-run especially when we know how recruitment actually works?
Your rant on distance edu is a giveaway. Will let that pass. Heard your arguments on this issue earlier. You are really good at droning. If you are right then CAG is definitely wrong https://www.firstpost.com/india/gauhati-university-offered-21-unapproved-courses-finds-cag-retired-hc-judge-internal-7-member-panel-to-independently-probe-charges-7732831.html
https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/gauhati-university-forms-panel-to-probe-cag-findings/cid/1723804
Wouldn't it be fun to have NCB come here and actually seize some contraband? Maybe we will finally get some news on TV. Maybe someone can ask what really happens to the seized contraband. That will be immersive and impressive. Anyway, why don't you check with CS, PA et al because their grievances ensured that the over payment issue kept bobbing up albeit inconveniently. Really need to get your troops to fall in line. By the way, are you sure that some reveal did not take place through RTI response from AO office? I know you run a tight ship at SDME. Bt not everyone is as efficient as you.
Appears from the Bangalore judgement that there were other Petitioners, including the BCI. The alumni petition doesn't even seem to be the lead petition. tut tut
- NUJS is a state government institution. It is not comparable with NLSIU and was set up with a different objective.
- Even if it is accepted (without prejudicing arguments) that the aims of NUJS by Prof Menon and the Jyoti Basu government was originally to replicate NLSIU, it is within the powers of the state government to change the objectives and make NUJS more regional.
- No procedural irregularities as being alleged. Everyone was informed from day one.
- Further, there is domicile quota in most other NLUs.
- Various case law cited.
https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/acts-to-declare-5-iiits-national-forensic-sciences-university-rashtriya-raksha-university-as-institutions-of-national-importance-receive-presidential-assent-read-notifications-163704
1. NLSIU
2. NLUD
3. NALSAR
4. NLUJ
5. GNLU
6. NLIU
7. NUJS
A further fall to no. 8 can be expected ifJGLS enters NIRF. And if Mamata returns to power, then even top 10 will not be possible.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/kolkata-nujs-admission-from-october-9-with-domicile-quota/articleshow/78422194.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=TOICitiesNews
Also in the TOI report, there is nothing wrong with the bureaucratic statement of NKC. There is no stay. Although there are things that NKC prefers to be kept in abeyance despite EC resolution, the DB has not suggested that admissions be held up and SB is yet to decide. So why self-impose paralysis?
NKC = NK(is)Correct. Each time. Always.
Pratik Dhar who has been the univ advocate thus far, except on tax matters, was not even consulted on the domicile quota law challenge. PD has many more years of practice and standing than KS. Also NKC had varied and better options. Then again, KS may not be a "odd" choice considering jersey changes taking place
NLUs: NLSIU, NALSAR, NLU (Delhi, Jodhpur, Odisha and Guwahati), NLIU, HNLU, RMLNLU, NUALS, RGNUL, CNLU, DSNLU, NUSRL, DSNLU, BRANLU
SLUs: WBNUJS, GNLU, MNLU, TNNLU, HPNLU.
If the SJA Prez and VP cannot even draft a simple email petition and get 800 alumni and student signatures, then they have no business being in their positions and must resign.
https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/nlsiu-an-unique-national-institution-and-not-a-state-university-karnataka-hc-while-quashing-25-domicile-reservation-163879
For anyone who wishes to join the NUJS Rebelz Association, drop a line to . We are a radical, underground opposition to the establishment and Deep State. Today is Gandhi Jayanti so we are being peaceful. But from next week onwards we will use the tactics of Netaji and Bhagat Singh. They are our role models, not Gandhi.
#THUGLife #FuckDaPolice #LegaliseGanja #FreeJulianAssange
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1. SH allegations against Justice Ganguly and the then AR Admin happened almost bac-to-back. Shamnad was on campus and along with a select group of faculty members, led the charge. A wide swathe of alumni joined in. There was so much of press. PIB had also earned a bad name by then for driving away talent. But PIB stayed on and Shamnad was forced to resign.
2. A former Registrar was indicted by a Calcutta HC appointed Inquiry of embezzling crores in UGC funds. Under SJA pressure, PIB was forced to cancel some dodgy contracts as well. But no monies were recovered. Further inquiry as suggested in the Inquiry Report never took off and Inquiry Report was buried. PIB got a second term. Given the past loss, Shamnad and alumni mostly stayed away other than an occasional snipe here and there.
3. SJA extracted the URC Report and exposed institutional complicity in multi-crore scams etc. PIB and his handpicked Registrar were allowed to slip away. Inquiries initiated but quietly killed off by successive VCs. Alumni stayed away but a section suddenly had hectic meetings with NKC in Delhi and Kolkata. Fancy conferences surrounding Prof Menon followed. A moribund alumni association was resuscitated with strong support from NKC acolytes.
4. Alumni Association election took place. A former SJA President took an active role. A "performance report" quietly gets published, which looks and reads like a slam book of that SJA president. But the line that stood out for me was the one penned by a high ranking NKC acolyte, which commended that SJA President for honouring a certain Laxman Rekha! Other standouts are paeans of praise by a CS, PA....you get the picture.
5. SJA elections result in a President who previously "set the records straight" that SJA is over. Laxman Rekha is the new normal and future proof.
No faculty member appreciates an independent SJA. Because SJA broke free of Laxman Rekha set by the teach, it incurred the wrath and negative attention of the latter. And now it has bitten the dust courtesy office bearers past and present who would happily crawl before even being forced to bend.
#BahutHuaSamman
.. And there is no information about him
https://twitter.com/suchitrav/status/1317287444228804608
Applying the same standard of generalisation that she herself has used, one might as well say that since she does not appear to know what misogyny means, the entire set of people who have qualified as barristers must be lacking in English and/or legal knowledge altogether! That's how immature and laughable her petulant generalisation seems. Further, if she has faced any issue during or after teaching, has she made a complaint to the admin about the students concerned? Or is shooting off a random tweet a better way to gain footage these days?
https://twitter.com/AishwaryaMudgi1/status/1317796187236229120
A successful Yale/Oxbridge educated barrister who also teaches part time would hardly have the memory / bandwidth to comment on an incident in class unless it was really egregious or hurtful. Teachers as a rule give large benefit of doubt to students and speaking as someone who has taught more than a few courses it would take a really bad, nasty ,spiteful incident to make me tweet about it. Splitting hairs over whether the act was misogyny or not is a clever way to avoid the real problem, the thuggish nature of the LLB students in NUJS, a trend that started with the agitation against the previous vice chancellor (Bhat). The Twitter profiles and comments of some of these goons are cringe worthy and a shame on NUJS, but one does not expect better when their professors are themselves thugs and goons who slap students around (literally) and scream on corridors.
Unfortunately all the feedback I have from friends and colleagues who end up going to NUJS for credit or regular courses is similar. Pretty soon nobody will want to go there.
https://twitter.com/suchitrav/status/1319968654633717760
She has claimed 'months of harassment and misogyny', but has still submitted only two examples, neither of which qualifies as misogyny. The people who are supporting her is doing so based on her version of events, which is strange especially for those with a law degree. No student has messaged her or tagged her. If I find the views aired by a teacher to be problematic, I cannot talk about that to others? Where does FoE go to take a hike in these times?
She has also attempted to name and shame students by posting their profiles publicly before filing any complaint. Strangely, that's what she actually accuses the students of having done too. Is this the mark of a Yale educated lawyer?
In the complaint, she has cleverly omitted the fact that all that a student had asked her was her stance on the Pakistani PM retweeting her tweets. In her complaint, that turns into a student having passed disrespecting remarks at her in class. Aisa selective fact reporting kaise chalega didi?
1. Complaint to NUJS VC against students but no action taken
https://twitter.com/suchitrav/status/1319968654633717760
2. Prof Jhuma Sen of JGLS has also complained to a few people https://twitter.com/inabluehouse/status/1320041763017355264
3. Those supporting Ms Vijayan.:
- Prof Bhakti S of Univ of Connecticut https://twitter.com/bhakti_shringa/status/1320005847683112960
- Author Srila Roy https://twitter.com/ProfSrilaRoy/status/1320045179215237121
- Anthropologist Shweta Krishnan https://twitter.com/shwetakrishnan/status/1320040563077533696
- Prof Vivek Soundarajan of University of Bath https://twitter.com/Vivek_Soundar/status/1320028239369277440
- Social activist and lawyer Paayas Pandit, alum https://twitter.com/notpaayas/status/1320064958722265088
3. Those opposing:
- Lawyer Abhinav Kumar, alum https://twitter.com/abhinav_k316/status/1320011929780273159
- Lawyer Aishwarya Mudgil, alum https://twitter.com/AishwaryaMudgi1/status/1319993850237054977
- Lawyer Milind Ghosh, NLIU Bhopal alum https://twitter.com/milindmghosh/status/1320025465935937536
This looks like a standard attempt on your part to ad hominem attack the people when you cannot counter their actual arguments. The disdain that you display towards 'lawyers' is also making your mentality susceptible to questions on bad faith. It is no secret that the left-liberal intelligentsia, just like their right-wing opponents, don't spend any time doing fact-check and actual analysis before jumping in the fray in their eagerness to defend their ilk. The questions that have been raised against Ms. Vijayan in this case all appear to be prima facie valid, though amenable to being countered. It goes to show the quality of your argument or rather lack thereof, when you choose not to engage with any of those, and instead embark on a pedigree-hunting spree. Observer you might call yourself, but impartial or objective you are not.
While claiming that NLS is an autonomous institution which was set up under the BCI's initiative and is not under the State government's control, the Court still holds that NLS is bound by the KA HC judgement in the [b]Lolaksha case[/b] which laid down that the SC and ST quota in all state universities is to be reserved only for students of Karnataka. This is legally implausible. In fact, the Court stated that this was an important factor in striking down the domicile quota since the University will then have close to 50% students from the state and this would dilute its national reputation. However, NLS doesn't even provide such a reservation to the SC/ST students of the state and appears to have ignored such a directive while ensuring there is no publicity regarding the same. Of course, the trend of law universities in India breaking the law in India is nothing new and no doubt, will continue, but the lack of accountability from public institutions and vested interests controlling their functioning is quite sad and deplorable.
Most other areas of the judgement including the role of the BCI and the difference between lawyers and doctors seem to be without any legal basis as well. It seems to me that the judge had already arrived at the conclusion in favour of NLS and then worked backwards to develop a reasoning to justify it. The KA government, considering that it provided the land and funding (NLS isn't funded by the Centre in any way unlike the IITs and AIIMS and even if the State govt. funding is miniscule, it still provides funds to an institution set up under its legislative enactment), still failed to put forward any reasoned or convincing arguments in its favour, so it isn't surprising that the decision went against them.
As far as NUJS is concerned, their admissions appear to be finished and classes have also started so it's unlikely that the domicile quota will be rolled back this year, atleast. Otherwise, their situation vis-a-vis NLS was quite similar. I also think the interested parties from NUJS should have challenged it earlier to avoid it, especially since there was enough time thanks to COVID. Why they failed to do so is beyond me.
That's how NLS and NLUD got the stay as well. If it had been a normal year, the admissions would have been rushed through.
I do hope the Delhi HC puts forward a more reasoned judgement regarding the NLUD reservation issue and strikes down such politically motivated reservations. I've seen some NLS trolls here bragging about this judgement, but this is really nothing to be proud of if your means (read, arguments) to the end were so specious.
1. The students who harassed and trolled Mx Suchitra must be expelled.
2. The VC and SJA must issue an unconditional apology to Mx Suchitra on behalf of the institution.
3. The IDG convenor must take moral responsibility and resign.
4. The students who supported Mx Suchitra and helped identify the toxic students should be commended and given protection until the toxic students are expelled.
5. The commended students should be appointed to a new student committee on gender sensitivity. The committee shall have the right to block certain students from IDG events. The committee shall be entrusted with gender sensitivity training of all students who identify as cisgender male.
6. Urgent creation of more safe spaces on campus for womxn/LGBTQIA+ students.
7. To help freshers feel as ease, students and faculty should be directed to announce their pronouns and wear badges in the first week of college. Freshers week should be declared "Kindness Week".
8. Advocacy of right-wing hate groups like RSS and VHP by students should invite warning, followed by expulsion.
9. Committee on gender sensitivity should be given veto power to overrule IDG on invites to speakers linked to above hate groups.
10. Reform curriculum and outlook. Introduce gender and social justice modules in all subjects.
Nobody has harassed or trolled Suchithra based on the examples that she has cited herself. Referring to someone as a communist to a third party does not constitute harassment. Similarly, asking her a question on her stance at the end of a class does not constitute harassment either unless the student persists with that outside classes, messages or mails the teacher against her will etc. Nobody has communicated with her outside the campus, tagged her in posts, written on her social media channels etc. If she finds being called communist an example of harassment and defamation, she should not preach communist ideals.
Suchithra herself should take moral and legal responsibility of dubbing an entire institution and student community misogynistic, lacking intelligence etc. without any evidence to such effect, despite saying in the same breath that she has received support from the students too.
She should also take responsibility for her followers trying to spin this narrative as if the university has not done anything to help her in ten months, when the first time she has complained about it has been less than a week ago and that too right before the vacation.
All of her followers and herself should undergo compulsory training about legal definition of offences and what constitutes defamation.
Especially the students who are 'supporting' her should be held accountable for why they did not bring the matter to the attention of the authorities earlier, nor informed Suchithra in good faith that she was filing the complaint at a time when the vacation is to begin and hence she should wait for a reasonable time before expecting any action on it and before again tweeting alleging mala fide and throwing accusation left and right.
Suchithra should also be made to apologise for posting student profiles in public and inciting her own followers to harass, troll and defame the students. If she refuses to apologise, then a police complaint should be lodged against her criminal actions.
I have got no problem with the gender sensitization issues that you speak of, but Suchithra should ideally be made to undergo such training too, because she is the one deliberately playing the woman card out of context here, when people from both genders have supported her and opposed her too. Throughout this entire incident, she has revealed a very ugly and confused side of her, lashing out randomly, which is not expected from an established professional with supposedly better knowledge.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/bengal-assembly-elections-2021-sourav-ganguly-conveys-disinterest-to-bjp/cid/1796396
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1. Did not interfere to such an extent when she was in the governing body.
2. Will not push for a second NUJS campus in Asansol because her constituency this time is going to be in Kolkata itself.
3. Practised in the Cal HC. Can speak in English. Attended college events and spoke at Galanter lecture. The current guy is basically a small-town hoodlum who happens to have a law degree from an obscure college. There are allegations of him having links with the coal mafia and he was taped in a sting operation.
https://theprint.in/politics/four-years-after-narada-sting-six-mamata-ministers-caught-in-another-bribery-video/372999/
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2. Even among LLB alumni, there are grades. Characteristics of Grade 1 are good work experience, publications, LLMs from reputed universities abroad etc. Characteristics of Grade 2 are a lack of these.
3. Furthermore, NUJS has lost the prestige it had since Menon/Chimni/MP Singh days, so having NSLIU/NALSAR/NLUD alumni is more prestigious. Even NLUJ has overtaken NUJS in NIRF.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/state-polls-may-be-brought-forward-to-avoid-exam-clash/articleshow/80259984.cms
NKC's role will now be interesting. As we can see below, he had made efforts to be friendly towards Mamata just before applying for VCship. But many people in Bengal are now switching over to the saffron camp. Will NKC follow the law minister's orders and quickly hire faculty, or will be switch camps and block attempts to appoint faculty before the Model Code comes into effect?
One switch has already happened. A website has reported that professor Anupama Ghoshal (daughter of former TMC MP Anup Ghoshal) ditched TMC and joined BJP. Photo and link to news report below.
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https://english.kolkata24x7.com/biswa-bangla-a-company-owned-by-abhishek-banerjee-mukul.html/
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If the law minister wishes to get his own people in, why did he put a stop to recruitment five months back and been stonewalling since then? You are not even making sense.
If recruitment happens early, it would be because from July onwards, the new UGC Regulations would come into effect that would effectively exclude more than half of the young NLU alumni from getting a job, since PhD is being made mandatory. That's why NLSIU, NALSAR are trying to recruit quickly now.
As for your other 'political information', you are referring to facts several years old as 'breaking news'.
Kian, PLEASE cover this. It will result in a clash between the CJI and Mamata and receive major coverage on MSM.
- Vikramjit Banerjee, Senior Advocate and ASG (LLB NLSIU, LLM Leicester)
- Som Mandal, Owner of Fox Mandal, LLB Calcutta University
- Kabir Shankar Bose, Advocate and Barrister at Law (LLB Nottingham and Barrister at Law)
- Now Arindam Bhattacharya.
https://in.linkedin.com/in/arindam-bhattacharya-85085030.
https://arindambhattacharya.wordpress.com/about/
https://www.barandbench.com/news/nlu-d-visiting-professor-babu-mathew-be-aaps-ls-candidate-bangalore-north