Court seeks response from Delhi University on law admission plea

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to Delhi University (DU) in response to a petition filed by two LLB aspirants, Sumit Kumar Singh and Anany Rathore, who claimed they were denied admission despite vacant seats in the law programme.

The court has sought a reply from the university by November 5, when the matter will next be heard.

The petitioners, represented by advocates Shakti Pandey and Gaurav Arora, have requested the court to direct the DU to fill the vacant seats in its LLB programme and to reserve two seats for them until the petition was resolved. Both candidates took the Common University Entrance Test (CUET-PG) 2024 and scored 176 marks in the “General (LLB etc)” category.

According to the petition, the candidates met the cutoff for Law Centre I and Law Centre II, but were not offered seats despite the availability of vacant positions. The DU had conducted four rounds of spot admissions, with the final round requiring a score of 177 for admission to Campus Law Centre and 176 for Law Centre I and II. The petitioners argued that they met the cutoff for the latter two centres but were unjustly excluded from the admission process.

The plea also claimed that the university failed to fulfill its declared vacancy positions across its law centres. For example, Campus Law Centre reportedly had 27 vacant seats in Spot Round-IV but admitted only 23 students, while Law Centre-I had 51 vacant seats across Spot Rounds III and IV but admitted only 32 students. Similarly, Law Centre-II had 69 vacant seats in Spot Rounds I, II, and III but admitted only 40 students.

The petitioners stated that they approached the university’s grievance redressal cell multiple times, highlighting the issue, but received no response. They argue that the failure to fill declared vacancies is a breach of the university’s responsibilities and violates the legitimate expectations of the qualified candidates like them.

2 denied admission despite vacant seats

• Two LLB aspirants, Sumit Kumar Singh and Anany Rathore, claim that they were denied admission despite vacant seats in the law programme
• Both candidates took the Common University Entrance Test 2024 and scored 176 marks in the ‘General

  (LLB etc)’ category

• The candidates met the cutoff for Law Centre I and Law Centre II, but were not offered seats despite the availability of vacant positions