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Scrap bar exam: Advocates, students
Bengaluru: About 8,000 advocates and students in the state have called for the abolition of the All India Bar Examination (AIBE), which they deemed unscientific.
Citing the instance of an LLM graduate who could not clear the Bar Council of India's AIBE, All India Lawyers Union's Bengaluru district president TR Venkatesh Gowda said the exam is unscientific and there is no transparency.
"We have given a memorandum to scrap it," he said.
"When MBBS and engineering (graduates) do not have an exam to become professionals, why do advocates have it?" he said.
The union's state secretary Srinivas Kumar also called AIBE unscientific.
He said the courts of assistant commissioners and deputy commissioners have a lot of corruption, and cases are not cleared in the stipulated time. It is better to shift the cases to civil courts, he said.
Harindra, state president said a signature campaign was held on June 13 to present the demands to the state govt through district officials. Lawyers are ready to lay siege to the Vidhana Soudha if their demands are not met in a month, he said.
