{"id":47389,"date":"2017-03-17T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=47389"},"modified":"2017-03-17T04:50:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:20:50","slug":"hc-dismisses-students-plea-jnu-admission-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-dismisses-students-plea-jnu-admission-policy","title":{"rendered":"HC dismisses students&#8217; plea against JNU admission policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" data-attachment-id=\"47401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-dismisses-students-plea-jnu-admission-policy\/jnu\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?fit=650%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jnu\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?fit=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?fit=640%2C394&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47401\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?resize=300%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/jnu.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court today dismissed as &#8220;infructuous&#8221; a plea challenging JNU&#8217;s admission policy based on a 2016 notification of the University Grants Commission which capped the number of students per professor for MPhil and PhD courses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Petition dismissed as infructuous,&#8221; Justice V K Rao said.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that the regulations made by UGC have to be followed by all varsities, including the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).<\/p>\n<p>In its 37-page judgement, the court said that if the students&#8217; plea is accepted, it would amount to &#8220;rewriting the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The students had challenged the admission policy on the ground that the May 5, 2016 UGC notification was implemented by JNU without following proper procedure.<\/p>\n<p>JNU, represented by central government standing counsel Monika Arora, had contended that the procedure was a mere formality as the notification was binding on all varsities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today dismissed as &#8220;infructuous&#8221; a plea challenging JNU&#8217;s admission policy based on a 2016 notification of the University Grants Commission which capped the number of students per professor for MPhil and PhD courses. &#8220;Petition dismissed as infructuous,&#8221; Justice V K Rao said. 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