News18: Delhi High Court issues notice to Delhi University over alleged arbitrariness in seat allocation for its LLB Course
The plea has alleged that the seat matrix adopted by the Delhi University fundamentally prevents reserved category students from competing in the open quota and consequently hinders additional reserved category students from making it to the list
;The Delhi High Court has recently issued notice and the Delhi University has been asked to respond to a plea alleging arbitrariness in its seat pattern allocation used for admission to the law program.
A bench of Justice Vikas Mahajan said that all the admissions made in the LLB course after December 21 will be subject to the outcome of this petition and listed the matter for further hearing on January 23.
As per the petition filed by a student who took the LLB entrance exam, individuals from reserved categories who received higher scores than those on the general category merit list were not promoted to the general category. This, according to the student, violates the rules of reservation and inhibits the admission of other students who fall within the reserved group.
In view of the above, the students who were otherwise eligible for a seat under the backward category were unable to secure a seat due to the seat allocation process practiced by Delhi University.
The plea has argued that the impugned first admission list has excluded reserved category students (OBC, SC, and ST), albeit obtaining marks above the general cut-off, from taking admissions under the open/unreserved category admission list. This seems to overturn the logic of reservation, as the seat matrix adopted by the respondent university fundamentally prevents reserved category students from competing in the open quota and consequently hinders additional reserved category students from making it to the list.
Additionally, the plea submitted that as a general principle, the open quota/unreserved admission category is open to all categories of students whereas, the first admission list of LLB 2022 published by the respondent university violates the said principle. The seat matrix adopted by DU is arbitrary, unlawful, and manipulative as well as an egregious infringement of constitutional rights guaranteed to the reserved category.