Around 500 law graduates have been forced to endure an agonising wait before they can finally start practising because the Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All-India Bar Examination (AIBE), which was earlier scheduled on December 5.
Around 500 law graduates have been forced to endure an agonising wait before they can finally start practising because the Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All-India Bar Examination (AIBE), which was earlier scheduled on December 5.
Unless the law graduates clear the examination, they cannot start practising. The apparent reason for the postponement is the delay in sending study material to the students for the examination. The BCI, in its meeting on Sunday in New Delhi, decided to postpone it.
Speaking to DNA, BCI member Satish Deshmukh said, “Many students who applied for the examination could not receive the study material. In the meeting the BCI also decided that the state bar councils would decide on the examination centres and would conduct the examination in their respective states.
The BCI will hold a meeting on November 21 in Chennai to finalise the examination date, “but the examination is likely to be postponed by three months,” Deshmukh said.
However, Deshmukh categorically said that no student with a 2010 law degree can practise in the court till he/she had cleared the AIBE.
The Maharashtra Rajya Navodit Vakil Samasya Nivaran Samiti, which was formed to highlight the plight of budding lawyers and law graduates, claimed that it was yet to receive the official announcement from the authorities about the cancellation of the examination.
The president of the samiti, Atul Pandhe said, “The last date to apply for the examination was October 31 but due to lukewarm response from students across India the BCI extended it till November 15. Even then only 25,000 students out of their target of 60,000 applied for the examination from across India.”
Varsha Mote, who passed law this year said, “I have secured sanad from the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, which is necessary to start my practice; but I cannot do so as I need to clear the AIBE.”
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