Thank you for your constructive engagement. While I will not be agreeing with your arguments, I will say that what you have written is the best pushback to what I have said previously and enhances the quality of the discussion.

1. I am not saying that that (disability accommodation requests going unscrutinised/improperly scrutinised) does not happen or that such phenomena aren't real. Nor am I necessarily saying that there aren't gaps in Jindal's implementation of accommodations. If the kinds of phenomena you are writing about hadn't been real, Puja Khedkar wouldn't have happened. However, I am worried about a tendency to inflate the level at which these things are happening, because of seeing the opposite happen more often - unreasonable, disproportionate, possibly discriminatory scrutiny of a person and their disability being carried out by examination authorities when disability supports are requested. Therefore, as disability is very poorly understood not just in Indian society but in most, I would think we need extra evidence before we reach any conclusion.

2. Your point about "over and above your regular work" regarding the administrators' attitudes is a particularly good one. It does not seem like Jindal (or frankly any even reasonably well-known Indian university) has a specific, separate disability support department or office of disability support services with staff who have expertise in disability support in higher education, unlike universities in Britain and the U.S. Jindal law's DSC (for all the hype of "global university"/"global law school") seems to be employing the (very Indian) higher education industry standard of having ad-hoc arrangements to support disabled students. What you have said is the best argument for creating such offices. If that were to be done, we aren't having examination authorities doing stuff "over and above [their] regular work" for a number of reasons:

(a) The disability advisory and support service is responsible for investigating the level, presence or absence of a disability, medical condition or specific learning difference of students - making that a crucial part of their "regular work";

(b) Based on the expertise of their staff, the disability support office recommends examination access arrangements (from my experience of such things in Britain) to the examination authorities based on the actual need of the student balanced with fairness for everyone (they don't get it right 100% of the time, but usually do); and

(c) the bar for rejecting the disability support office's recommendation would have to be a high one - such as if that office had no backing based on evidence for its recommendation, or the recommendation for an access arrangement compromised its fairness or assessment of competency standards etc.

Just to add about my second point, this is not just me (a person who has experienced a different educational system) saying that universities in India need to have dedicated disability advisory and support offices. Anchel Bhateja, the first blind person to go to NLSIU, said this about her university in a newspaper article.

I appreciate your very reasonable reply. I am not the OP either. However, do note that even at places like Jindal or especially at such places, the people in charge of implementation of such policies often take the easy way out rather than going the extra mile to ensure that the accommodations are not subject to abuse. Giving most claimants what they want often seem like the easiest and quickest way out, especially when you're not getting paid to take the extra trouble, which is often over and above your regular work. Regardless of Jindal's aspirations, this is the real truth.

Hello! I was an undiagnosed DSC registered student from Fall '21 to Spring '23. (ADHD – DSC relaxations allowed me to later start managing my workload) When I de-registered, at that time Jindal had a policy that you need to be diagnosed/or at the very least be in constant consultation with the Doctors there to be able to avail benefits under the DSC scheme.

I'm not sure what your grievance is about, but I think you know exactly who you're targeting probably due to jealousy. Able-bodied persons can have their own struggles w.r.t. emotional trauma, remaining undiagnosed. Doesn't mean they do not get to avail DSC benefits here. If a competent authority is processing their registration, it's literally between them and the student. Your grievances harm your fellow batch mates.

Go talk to the DSC, figure out on what basis they allow relaxations. Maligning your own people is not okay.

Why don't you make a complaint and prove this argument to the appropriate authorities instead of coming and crying here? You do know that you are actually making things worse for the people you claim to care about - disabled people? Your post is just the trigger to set off more speculation and gossip. It was a very irresponsible thing to do to come and post like this. You claim to care that some people faking it means people without visible disabilities get a "side-eye". Believe me now, thanks to you, even more people who are undeserving of such treatment will get it.

Everything in the previous paragraph takes your post at face value - that you are actually telling the truth. I note this because there are things that seem very unusual about what you say - and I am coming from the point of view of a visibly disabled person who attended the type of flashy western university (whose disability support system is very good) that Jindal/JGLS would be trying to emulate to climb up the rankings:

1. First of all, in many circumstances, people with laptop kind of arrangements wouldn't have that in isolation. They would have it along with another arrangement, that is often called a "separate room". That's literally what it says on the tin - they'd be in a different room from the non-disabled students. Among other things, that helps invigilate them better.

2. You'd have to be the world's biggest prat to allow in internet-enabled laptops for in person examinations that didn't allow access to materials. Why! At my university, I couldn't even carry in my own laptop! (Even if I had turned the internet off.) I was given one of theirs to take my exams on. And, while my own laptop had an Indian keyboard, that was one hell of an inconvenience, because the placing of the @ symbol and quotation marks on a British keyboard compared to an Indian one are very different - an important point to note for lawyers taking exams.

Jindal as a university and JGLS as a law school may (does) have many faults, but you are making a very tall claim: that they are making elementary mistakes in walking a path that the type of universities they are aspiring to beat in the global competition do not make.

Moderators, please have this deeply provocative, problematic and irresponsible post removed, unless the author of it is able to provide proof in some form of what they are saying, or unless they give a written undertaking to you (privately is fine) that they will put their accusations before the appropriate authorities. Put a moderator note on the post to flag it as unverified material unless and until the one who wrote this helps resolve the issue one way or the other.