A Special CBI Court on Monday reportedly awarded five years imprisonment to current and former Bar Council of India (BCI) officials for taking bribe in lieu of granting approval to Law Colleges in the country. BCI Current Associate Managing Trustee Rajinder Singh Rana, former BCI Vice Chairman Raju Dhanpal Raj and ex-BCI member Milan Kumar Dey were awarded the sentence along with a fine, by Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna in Patiala House, Delhi. The details with regard to the number of such incidents or the Law School(s) involved are not clear. While Legally India claims that bribe was taken from Global Law College in Ghaziabad, PTI claims involvement of School of Law Studies of Bulandshahr (UP). The judgment, however, may provide a resort to the speculations, when it states, “It is clear that the accused have been seeking bribe from old and new colleges as a matter of right. The demand in form is nothing but extortion and also amounts to professional misconduct.” While a fine of Rs....