India, Aug. 6 -- Aspiring law students received a rude shock on day one of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) when they found some of the state's top law colleges missing from the list of available institutes to choose from.

On Wednesday, students were required to indicate their college preferences for both the three-year and five-year law courses but they didn't find the names of sought-after colleges on the list, such as Government Law College, Pravin Gandhi Law College, Siddharth Law College, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Law and New Law College.

Officials with the state higher and technical education department said these and other colleges have been excluded from the first round of admissions because they have not secured a...