Complaint Filed With BCI Alleges Rashtriya Raksha University Law School Violates Norms

A complaint has been filed before the Bar Council of India (BCI) against the School of National Security and Law (SNSL) at Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gandhinagar.The August 31 complaint by a student addressed to BCI's secretary, joint secretaries and the Legal Education Committee alleges that all internal remedies have failed and that the law school is operating in "flagrant violation" of the BCI Rules of Legal Education, 2008.SNSL is approved by BCI's Legal Education Committee and at present features in BCI's list of approved Centres of Legal Education (CLEs) for academic session 2026-27.However, students have pointed out that in the December 2023 approval letter for academic sessions 2023-24 and 2024-25, the BCI had listed some conditions and RRU was required to file a notarised compliance affidavit within 6 weeks. The conditions included recruiting full-time faculty with a minimum LL.M. qualification on UGC pay scales, shifting the law library into the School of Law building with at least ₹5 lakh in fresh reference material, upgrading the moot court with 3 crown chairs under a senior professor's supervision, setting up a legal aid clinic in collaboration with the district legal services authority and constructing additional classrooms with a minimum seating capacity of 60.As per the student's complaint, most of these conditions remain unmet. The grievances include:No full-time faculty: the entire teaching unit is on contract, with no professor or senior professor