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Meghalaya HC allows law student to take final semester exam barred due to short attendance; Recognizes medical hardship as exceptional circumstance

Rule 12 of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008 is to be interpreted reasonably. When it is possible for the student to attend classes and he deliberately or negligently does not do so, the rule would apply. In case of impossibility created by illness, act of God etc., this rule is either not to be applied or to be liberally construed.

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Meghalaya HC directs for 2-hour ‘Incognito’ inspections on weighbridges during peak traffic over allegations of mismanagement & loss of revenue

“Only in cases of gross failure of the administrative machinery causing injury to the public at large who are unable to obtain any redress except with the intervention of the Court, should the Court intervene and this dividing line should be strictly maintained.”