New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) whether it has any procedure to enable online enrollment of law graduates during the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.
The query was posed by Justice Navin Chawla while issuing notice to the BCD and Bar Council of India (BCI) on a plea by four law graduates who are seeking an online mode of enrollment as all of them hail from Bihar and cannot come to Delhi for attending the physical process of enrollment.
The law graduates -- Abhishek Anand, Gaurav Kumar, Priya Ranjan and Anurag Yadav -- told the court that without getting enrolled they would not be able to sit in the All India Bar Exam for which applications have to be submitted by December 19.
They also told the court that Bar Councils of several other states - like Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh -- started online enrollment of law graduates in August-September this year.
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