<p class="title">The Supreme Court has asked the Bar Council of India, regulator of legal education and profession, to spell out how many law colleges can be set up district-wise in a state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A three-judge bench presided over by Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar also sought to know the criteria for granting permission to establish law colleges in a state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The BCI is to furnish the data as to how many law colleges can be permitted to operate in a particular state (district-wise) and what is the criteria. The BCI must also file data on the law colleges approved by it in various states place-wise," the bench ordered.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court sought a detailed affidavit from the regulator by the second week of March after being told that law colleges had mushroomed in various states because of permission granted to a number of private law colleges.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The top court was hearing a plea filed by Tamil Nadu government, which sought to know whether there was any requirement for private law colleges in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apprehending mushrooming of law colleges, the state government had passed a law, the Tamil Nadu Establishment of Private Law Colleges (Prohibition) Act, 2014, which was challenged by Advocates Forum for Social Justice.</p>
<p class="title">The Supreme Court has asked the Bar Council of India, regulator of legal education and profession, to spell out how many law colleges can be set up district-wise in a state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A three-judge bench presided over by Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar also sought to know the criteria for granting permission to establish law colleges in a state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The BCI is to furnish the data as to how many law colleges can be permitted to operate in a particular state (district-wise) and what is the criteria. The BCI must also file data on the law colleges approved by it in various states place-wise," the bench ordered.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The court sought a detailed affidavit from the regulator by the second week of March after being told that law colleges had mushroomed in various states because of permission granted to a number of private law colleges.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The top court was hearing a plea filed by Tamil Nadu government, which sought to know whether there was any requirement for private law colleges in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Apprehending mushrooming of law colleges, the state government had passed a law, the Tamil Nadu Establishment of Private Law Colleges (Prohibition) Act, 2014, which was challenged by Advocates Forum for Social Justice.</p>
