(1.) Mr.J.Deliban, a practicing Advocate of this Court and claiming himself to be a Public Interest Litigant, has filed the instant writ petition for a Mandamus seeking a direction to the respondents 1 & 2 to restrain and regulate the Centres for Legal Education in the State of Tamil Nadu in consonance with Rule 14 of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008.
(2.) Petitioner has impleaded the Bar Council of India, New Delhi, Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, Chennai and surprisingly, the Director General of Police, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, as party respondents.
(3.) Quoting that there are ten law colleges affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr.Ambedkar Law University with an object to promote legal education, the petitioner has contended that there are many Centres for legal education in the State of Tamil Nadu, without affiliation to the University and inviting the attention of this Court to an advertisement stated to have been made by "Karthick Law Acadamy" that coaching would be offered for studying L.L.B. course and admission, petitioner has further contended that coaching centre of the said Academy has to be restrained and that Bar Council of India, represented by its Secretary, New Delhi should regulate the Centres for Legal Education in the State of Tamil Nadu in consonance with Rule 14 of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008.