Osmania University Students Claim Repealed Laws are Still Part of Syllabus
The final year law students of the university have declared that the syllabus of Osmania University is outdated. Concerns have been raised regarding the LLB syllabus of the varsity.
Osmania University (OU), final year students’ claim that their syllabus still had junked laws. The students raised concerns saying that the syllabus had laws that were either amended or repealed in the earlier past. Questions started raising over the syllabus of Osmania University during the recent semester exams. In the ‘Criminal Procedure Code Law of Juvenile Justice and Probations of Offenders’ paper, students were asked to write the salient features of Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 which was repealed earlier by the Parliament in the year 2015.
Alluri Divakar Reddy, a student of Pendakanti Law College, says that the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 (Care and Protection of Children) came into play from January 15, 2016, but the Osmania University was still making them study the repealed act instead of the 2015 Act. Reddy also wrote a letter to the vice-chancellor in-charge seeking revision of the syllabus. The students raised questions on the syllabus questioning why were they being asked to study a 20-year-old law that was repealed five years ago.
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Despite revising the syllabus in 2017, the university failed to remove the repealed act of 2000 and add the new JJ ACT, 2015. Students claim that the same was done with the new Consumer Protection Act 2019 and the amended law of Consumer Protection Act, 1986. There are many such laws that were repealed in the Parliament earlier but are still a part of the Osmania University’s syllabus.
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GB Reddy, Dean, professor of law at Osmania University, confirms the news and says that several amendments have been made over the years. He calls the changes drastic and numerous. He adds that the changes are even difficult for practising lawyers to comprehend. Reddy says that the changes in university syllabus occur once every three years and in 2020 the changes will be made again. He says that the teachers need to be aware of the changes and also the examiner needs to keep them in mind while examining the students.