In response to a plea of a second-year law student who was denied to sit in her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) examination, the Supreme Court on May 23 dismissed the petition. The student is studying her bachelors in Delhi University, who could not regularly attend classes for being in the latter stage of pregnancy which resulted poor attendance. Therefore, the University did not allow the 27-year-old to sit for Semester IV exam following which she approached the law seeking relaxation in attendance and permission to sit for her LLB exam. The Delhi High Court refused to grant any relaxation on Monday, May 21. The pregnant woman knocked the door of the apex court but faced rejection, again!

On May 23, ANI reported that the Supreme Court dismissed the petition of the 27-year-old pregnant woman identified as Ankita Meena, seeking its direction to appear in LLB examination. The authorities at the Delhi University recommended not to sit for the exam and that her attendance was short. Indian Express further reported that the matter was put before a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha. The second year student’s advocates Ashish Virmani and Himanshu Dhuper informed the apex court that the woman had a good case in her favour since she could not attend semester classes because of her health issues she went through during the final stage of her pregnancy.

SC denies DU student to sit for LLB exam! 

Realising that the authorities from the University were not present at the court, Justice Khanwilkar noted that by the time the Court hears the opposition’s argument, the exam would have been over. Justice Khanwilkar was quoted; “How can we pass an order without hearing the other side? The exam is at 2 and by the time we hear the other side what can be done?” The Supreme Court further informed that if Delhi University agrees and make arrangements for Ms. Ankita Meena to write the exam, the court will have no problem. The law student failed to meet the 70 percent attendance criteria as she missed classes for nearly 2 months because of her pregnancy and childbirth.

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