The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked NUJS Kolkata to respond to a student’s plea against its abrupt suspension of the course the student was enrolled in at NUJS.
Petitioner Pratham Sharma, who had enrolled for the eight-month long entrepreneurship and business laws diploma offered by NUJS, with service provider iPleaders, had approached the high court after NUJS suspended all its distance learning courses mid-session, allegedly without giving students or course providers any prior intimation or warning of its move.
Sharma commented: “We’re not after the money that we paid in comparison to the value we were getting from the course. [I prayed to the court to] tell NUJS not to revoke the decision [to offer the courses] on the drop of a hat like this and complete [the course for] this batch at least and give authentic recognisable diplomas for this batch. If that is not possible then we better get our money back.”
Justice Siddharth Mridul gave NUJS’ counsel until 1 August to seek clarity from NUJS in the matter, Sharma told us.
Sharma told us that around 3,000 students were likely affected by NUJS’ suspension of the courses but that he was the first of them to challenge the move in court. Advocate Sahib Singh was acting for Sharma.
He said that he had attempted to contact NUJS through calls 60-70 times after the course shut down notification, but all his attempts had failed as the administration was unresponsive. One of his batchmates who allegedly managed to get through to some of the faculty teaching the courses told him that the faculty was clueless about the future of the courses as it is the executive council (EC) which is authorised to take the final decision on them, and they were not members of the EC.
As per the minutes of the EC meeting, which we had published earlier, there is no final decision on NUJS’ distance learning courses yet and discussion has been deferred to the next EC meeting which is due in September.
Full disclosure: iPleaders has previously been an advertiser with Legally India.
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The clock is ticking....
Second of all alumnis has no automatic right to offer course. Course may be per rule of UGC with faculties having PHD or NET qualification and course duly prescribed by Learned Bar Council of India. We may also see truth is that 90% alumnis is against such course. Only few wants it.
Third of all public universities cannot give education for private profit but rather non profit basis for public good with minimum cost.
Fourth of all it is appreciated that internal matters is not taken up in public without known full facts. Discussion is always welcome but it need be in proper channel.
Also, you are clearly not very familiar with law beyond first principles. There is a whole jurisprudence of case laws which says that if cause of action arises in jurisdiction of two HCs then the petitioner can approach either. That's why Hon'ble Delhi HC has agreed to hear the case. Go read Sonu Sardar v. Union of India. IT Act says that in case of online channels where the recipient of services is situated, cause of action arises there.
NUJS has been offering these courses for its own profit. And if it doesn't want to offer courses why doesn't it close out the courses properly like any responsible VC will do, instead of harassing thousands of students? This Acting VC seems to have a GOD complex.
(b) looks like the petitioner is only 2 years old as per his affidavit in Page 23.
Thanks for pointing out, have redacted the address there too now.
High odds:
NK Chakrabarti
Paramjit Jaswal
Medium odds:
Ved Kumari (DU Dean)
JK Das
AK Poddar
Manoj Sinha
VK Unni (IIM C)
Low odds:
Shamnad Basheer
Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Sarasu Thomas
V Umakanth
Dear SJA can you put an end to this "ACTING REGIME"?
Why have you deleted the comment titled "PIB OUT, JUSTICE IN"? Ar you afraid of this acting regime at NUJS?
International student.
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