The Bar Council of India may need to come out with a mechanism in setting up study centres to those prisoners aspiring to pursue legal education. Universities in Maharashtra do not have such a provision to set up any study and exam centres, as law education cannot be imparted in distance education mode.

The state prison department had recently written to the vice-chancellors of five universities in the state—Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj University, Nagpur; Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Sambhajinagar; Kaviyatri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon; Savitribai Phule University, Pune and Mumbai University, requesting them to establish study and exam centres in the prisons and almost all of them have responded in negative.