Illegal, arbitrary and whimsical: CLAT aspirant moves Madhya Pradesh HC challenging conduct of NLAT
Illegal, arbitrary and whimsical: CLAT aspirant moves Madhya Pradesh HC challenging conduct of NLAT
Taking after the challenges to the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT 2020) recorded some time recently the Supreme Court and the Jharkhand High Court, a request has presently been recorded some time recently the Madhya Pradesh High Court challenging the conduct of the exam.
The applicant, a CLAT hopeful, submits that he is wronged by the choice of the National Law School of India College (NLSIU) Bangalore to conduct a isolated entrance exam input of the Common Law Confirmation Test, 2020 (CLAT), which is planned to be conducted on September 28. The supplication moreover states that the notice issued by NLSIU on September 3, declaring its choice to conduct NLAT, is violative of Clauses 15.3.3 and 15.7 of the bylaws of the Consortium of NLUs as well as the guideline of promissory estoppel.
The solicitor has advance invalidated the stand taken by NLSIU that it was in a distraught position because it takes after a trimester framework, made up of 90 days term for each scholarly year. It is expressed that indeed NLIU Bhopal takes after a trimester system. Additionally, it is expressed that NLSIU, being a part of the NLU Consortium and a government-funded organized, cannot make a lesson and a differential method for the law entrance exam. The request moreover states that the choice of NLSIU to have home-based specialized necessities is against the teaching of sensibility. This will deny the understudies from rustic areas to secure confirmations within the best law school of the nation, fights the supplication.
On these grounds, the supplication implores for the Court to announce the September 3 notice as self-assertive and unlawful. The supplication too supplicates for a heading to NLSIU to take after the method set up by the NLU Consortium for conceding understudies to its BA.LLB programme.
– By Aditi Das
