The Delhi High Court issued a restraining order on Monday to the Delhi University Teacher's Association (DUTA), asking it not to obstruct the ongoing admission procedure, a report in The Hindu said.

Protesting the manner in which the semester-based science courses were implemented, the DUTA had issued a call to all teachers to dissociate from the admission process.

The current order states that: 'keeping in mind the careers of a large number of students, it is ordered that until the next date of hearing which is on August 16, defendants (DUTA) and the other office-bears are restrained from obstructing the admission process in whatsoever manner.'

In response to the HC order, the DUTA issued a statement saying that the appeal still stands. It claimed that the appeal to teachers was never to "obstruct the admission process in any manner whatsoever", only to dissociate from admission work. Following the call, 53 colleges had decided to dissociate from the admission process.

The semester based science courses had been implemented by vice-chancellor Deepak Pental in alleged violation of the university acts, statutes and ordinances, DUTA had said. It also expressed frustration with failed attempts at dialogue with the VC regarding the feasibility of the semester system.

Delhi University Academic Council member, Abha Dev Habib, called the VC's tendency to go to court time and again to curtail the DUTA's right to struggle, a sign of a bad administrator. The VC had gone to court over the matter of DUTA's refusal to submit internal assessment marks as well, which the teachers subsequently did submit.

Regarding the current order, university deputy registrar (legal) M A Sikandar said, "Apart from their teaching duties, teachers are also supposed to see to admissions. There are 54,000 seats at stake and the lives of students cannot be played with. If the DUTA does not obey the order, it will amount to contempt of court. This is the opinion of the university.”

Since teachers have not been participating in the admission process of fixing cut-offs, many colleges will use last year's cut-offs this year as well.