Prior to this, a number of students had approached the Delhi High Court, aggrieved by the changes in the admission criteria. However, the Delhi HC held the MCI norms to be “legal and valid”.
The plea expresses that the DDA's decision to arbitrarily convert the park into a community centre is "a clear-cut example of poor planning and an example of wastage of public money.”
Two Indian students, Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi, have filed a Public Interest Litigation similar to class action in the Delhi High Court, challenging WhatsApp’s privacy policy as a part of which it can share information of millions of users with Facebook.