THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No : 23505 of 2010 O R D E R: This Writ Petition is filed by a person belonging to a socially disadvantaged segment, who pursued his graduation course, realizing the significance and importance of formal education, from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University. Notwithstanding his obtaining the degree certificate, when he made an attempt to pursue the three year law course, the 1st respondent has declined such a permission. Learned counsel for the writ petitioner contends that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University has been established and created for the purpose of providing benefits and facilities for enabling the disadvantaged segments of the society to pursue the aspirations and ambitions of formal education and after they acquire the graduation qualification, the 1st respondent ought not to have prevented such students’ admission into the three year law course. However much one might sympathize with the cause of the writ petitioner, the fact remains that it is the Bar Council of India, being the custodian of the standards of legal education, which has prescribed that candidates desirous of pursuing admission to legal education should have passed the 10+2 examination before they acquire graduation qualification, and only such candidates are granted permission to pursue the law course. Consequently, candidates like the writ petitioner, who did not pursue the 10+2 course before he pursued his three year degree course from the Open University, is denied admission. How far the Bar Council of India is justified in prescribing such a norm as to insist each candidate to have passed 10+2 examination, has, in fact, engaged the attention of a Division Bench of this Court in a batch of Writ Petitions, namely Writ Petition No. 16585 of 2009 and batch. The Division Bench by its judgment dated 31.12.2009, has dismissed the Writ Petition and upheld the rule prescribed by the Bar Council insisting the prospective candidates, who solicited admission into three year/five year law courses, to have passed the 10+2 examination. In view of this judgment rendered by the Division Bench, the question that has been raised in this Writ Petition cannot be allowed to be agitated. Therefore, following the judgment of the Division Bench in Writ Petition No. 16585 of 2009 and batch, I dismiss this Writ Petition. No costs. ---------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J 22nd September 2010 ksld ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRK}