The Bar Council of India (BCI) has asked Delhi University to shutdown colleges offering law courses in evening shifts. The recommendation has been made after a committee of BCI, the apex regulatory body for legal education and legal profession in India, submitted an adverse report about the infrastructure and quality of education being imparted at the centres of DU’s law faculty. Around 800 students are presently enrolled in the DU evening colleges offering law. The report which was sent to the university on August 6 is expected to resolve a legal tangle and pave the way for admission counselling to begin at the law faculty after two postponements. “The matter has been communicated to us and we have placed the same before the Academic Council (AC). It has been decided that we will follow the BCI rules and recommendations,” a senior official said. “DU has indicated that it will abide by the BCI’s recommendation. So we went to meet the dean today (Monday) and asked her why they are taking an anti-students’ stance,” said Abhinav Arora, an aspiring law student.