Verdict on 4 'fake' law instts starts

The High Court yesterday started delivering the verdict on a writ petition filed for taking appropriate action against the fake institutions which are giving law degree certificates to students without legal authority.
It fixed May 27 to resume the reading out of the verdict.
The ministry of education has found four fake educational institutions in Dhaka, which have no affiliation with any university of the country or abroad, but giving law degrees for money, petitioner's counsel Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star.
The institutions are Chancery Academy of English Law at Dhanmondi, International University at Uttara, North American University at Lalmatia and Victoria University at Dhanmondi.
Manzill said he had prayed to the HC to direct the government to find out all such fake institutions across the country, shut them down, and award punishment.
One Rehana Ali, who took admission to Chancery Academy of English Law, earned a certificate of law degree last year from the institution after she had given Tk 10 lakh to the authorities of the fake institution.
Bangladesh Bar Council, the authority that gives licence to the country's lawyers to practice law, has refused to allow her certificate, saying that the institution is not authenticated by any legal authority.
She filed the petition with the HC in August last year, saying that Chancery Academy of English Law is running in the name of Williamsburg University of United Kingdom, but she could know from the ministry of education and the British Council in Bangladesh that there is no institution in the UK by the name of Williamsburg University.
The HC bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim Justice Md Faruque yesterday started delivering the verdict.