HC asks govt to take action against Chancery Academy

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take action against Chancery Academy of English Law of the capital's Dhanmondi in two months for giving law degree certificates to students without approval from any appropriate authority.
Delivering the verdict on a writ petition, the court ordered the authorities concerned to formulate a policy in three months to control institutions running in the name of foreign universities.
The HC bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Md Faruque also asked the institution's principal, Khaja Iqbal, to deposit Tk 1.5 lakh to the court's section concerned as cost for running the case.