Telangana High Court Orders BCI To Determine Eligibility Of Final-Year Law Students For AIBE

A bench of Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy issued the directive, instructing the BCI to review a student's representation on this matter. The Court directed the BCI to make a decision within two weeks and communicate it to the concerned student, taking into account the Supreme Court's observations in the case of Bar Council of India vs. Bonni FOI Law College and others, where the validity of AIBE was upheld in a ruling.

The Court heard the plea of a student from Osmania University who challenged a notification issued by the BCI on August 16 regarding the schedule for AIBE-XVIII.

Advocate N. Krishna Sumanth appeared for the Petitioner and Advocate D. Pallavi appeared for the Respondents.

The petitioner argued that the BCI did not provide final year or final semester LLB students the option to appear in the examination, contrary to the Supreme Court's February judgment. In response, the BCI stated that a Committee had been formed to examine the Supreme Court's recommendations.

The Supreme Court, in its earlier ruling, had stated that students eligible for the final semester of their law course, who had cleared all examinations until then, could participate in the All India Bar Examination. However, the results would be subject to the individual passing all the necessary components required by the University/College's course of study, with the AIBE results remaining valid for a specified period of time.

The High Court directed the BCI to consider this aspect while making its decision.

Cause Title: Rajasekhar Simma v. Bar Council of India & Ors.

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