Law graduates boycott mandatory All India Bar Examination

Chennai, Mar 6 (PTI) Law graduates across the southern
Indian city on Sunday boycotted the mandatory All India Bar
Examination 2009-10, demanding that it be scrapped.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has made All India Bar
Examination (AIBE) mandatory for all law graduates, who have
passed in the academic year 2009-10 to practice law in India.
The students demanded to know why they should write the
exam even after enrolling with the Bar council.
In examination centres like Stella Maris College and Queen
Mary's college students tore up hall tickets, trooped out and
sat on the road, shouting slogans against the Bar Council of
India.
The agitators staged a road-roko outside exam halls all
over the city and sat across railway tracks.
A law graduate at Stella Mary's college centre, who is a
practicing advocate in Madras High Court pointed out that
medical and engineering professionals do not have to write
this kind of compulsory exam on graduation.
In St Thomas Mount, around 500 law graduates staged a rail
roko at the nearby station.
The protesters asked BCI not to hold such mandatory exams
and said some of them have already started practising as
advocates.
The law graduates also said many of them had not received
the hall tickets and preparatory materials by BCI.