Overview
- The High Court took suo motu cognisance of an SPPU circular that provisionally advances failed law students to higher years, calling the policy beyond logic and reason.
- As per the circular, even students who failed an entire first year could be admitted to the third year, a departure from typical ATKT requirements.
- The petition prompting the hearing was filed by first-year LL.B. student Amit Sahadev Harale, for whom the court declined immediate relief while keeping the case pending.
- Justices Ravindra V. Ghuge and Ashwin D. Bhobe questioned whether the Board of Studies and the Academic Council approved the move and sought names of beneficiaries.
- The court set the next hearing for September 22 and directed the university to evaluate any application by the petitioner’s father for a writer in English through due procedure.