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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court has cancelled National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru’s notification for a separate entrance examination, the National Law Aptitude Test-2020 held on September 12, for admission to its five-year built-in BA LLB (Hons) programme.
While cancelling the NLAT-2020 entrance examination, the courtroom additionally directed that admissions in all 22 National Law Universities (NLUs) be carried out in accordance with CLAT-2020 which is scheduled to be held on September 28.
A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan handed the order on a plea difficult NLAT-2020 filed by former NLSIU vice chancellor Professor R Venkata Rao and the father or mother of an aspirant.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices RS Reddy and MR Shah, mentioned all NLUs ought to begin their educational session by mid October.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralised nationwide degree entrance check for admissions to 22 NLUs in India. Bengaluru’s National Law School of India University is one in every of them.
On September 17, the highest courtroom reserved its order on the plea looking for quashing of the NLAT-2020 notification, learn with the September four press launch on NLSIU admissions 2020-21. NLSIU Bengaluru defended its determination within the high courtroom to carry a separate entrance examination as an alternative of CLAT.
On September 11, the highest courtroom gave NLSIU Bengaluru its go forward to carry a separate examination on September 12 however restrained it from saying the outcomes and admitting any pupil until the pendency of the plea.
The bench, which mentioned it is a vital matter which must be determined, had issued discover to the college and its vice chancellor Professor Sudhir Krishnaswamy and sought their responses on the plea.
The plea termed holding of a separate examination as “manifestly arbitrary and illegal”.
NLSIU’s motion had created unprecedented uncertainty and has imposed an onerous burden and obligations upon 1000’s of aspirants, who are actually unsure in regards to the future plan of action, the plea claimed.
The impugned notification offers that NLSIU shall not settle for the scores of CLAT 2020 for admission to educational 12 months 2020-21 and an examination referred to as NLAT be carried out on-line.
“The sudden and capricious decision of the NLSIU has not only thrown the aspirants of CLAT 2020 into frenzy and in a state of fear and confusion, it has also severely jeopardized the position of the university in the Consortium. Due to the whimsical conduct of the University, the children are put to extreme pressure and mental stress,” the plea mentioned.
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