Bombay High Court stays 60-40 marking system in Law exams

In a major relief to law students, the Bombay High Court on Monday, stayed the 60-40 marking scheme introduced by the Mumbai University, from this year.

A division bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice M S Karnik, lauded the object of the scheme but said it was not implemented properly and thus it cannot be included from this year. The bench admitted the petition filed by Dipak Chattopadhyay, who works as a law teacher at a varsity college, and two other persons and posted the matter for final hearing in due course of time.

Advocate Uday Warunjikar appearing for Chattopadhyay said, "Our main argument was that the scheme would lead to malpractices." Advocate Rui Rodrigues appearing for the University had argued that "It had introduced the new evaluation system to avoid delays in evaluation and declaration of results. Further, in the 53 law colleges under its jurisdiction, it only had 47 full-time teachers and added that most of the teachers were visiting faculties."

The bench after going through the details said, "Rome was not built in a day and the University was reminding it of the ruler Tughlaq, who changed the capital overnight." The plea said the decision would lead to, "malpractice, corruption, and prejudices", and is against the Bar Council of India's norms.