Varsity served legal notice

An applicant to Mumbai University’s LLM programme has sent the university legal notice alleging “irregularity” in the merit-based admission process.

An applicant to Mumbai University’s LLM programme has sent the university legal notice alleging “irregularity” in the merit-based admission process.

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Ravi Punjabi, 43, applied for the university’s LLM programme for the business laws stream but found he was not on the second merit list despite making the cut-off. The university allegedly told him he had not re-applied after the first merit list was out on August 24. University officials claimed a merit-based process was followed.

Punjabi sent a notice through his lawyer to the university’s law department on September 7, asking for the second merit list to be revoked. While the list closed at 46.25%, Punjabi had scored 55.62%. The university said they had received the notice and would reply in a day or two. Head of the law department Rashmi Oza said, “No changes were made to the admission process and it was completely transparent.”