A decision taken by the Delhi University (DU) for its final year law students has come as a shock for them, as now they will have to appear for their fourth semester examination after the sixth and the final one. The students are a worried lot because this will delay the final results and in the process they would miss out on their LLM admission options elsewhere and the Bar Council of India (BCI) approval test, which would have let them start practicing law soon.

Students alleged that the decision was taken because the university did not get time over the past one year to conduct the semester four examination, which was postponed in May last year due to the lockdown. Now the students will not only have to appear for two semester exams within a month, they will also miss out on the BCI approval test and will have no option other than applying for LLM admission only in DU-affiliated colleges.  According to the students, their counterparts from other universities and colleges were not facing the same issue, and hence they have written to the varsity regarding the same.