Plea in Delhi HC against domicile reservation in NLSIU in Karnataka – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court difficult the constitutional validity of the Karnataka authorities”s decison to impose 25 per cent domicile reservation in the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru.

The matter got here up for listening to on Thursday earlier than a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan which recused from listening to it and directed that or not it’s listed earlier than one other bench.

When the matter got here up for listening to, petitioner’s lawyer stated that one other bench had not too long ago stayed operation of such a reservation in the National Law University, Delhi (NLUD).

The excessive court docket on June 29 had stayed the NLUD”s determination to order 50 per cent seats for college kids who’ve handed the qualifying examination from a recognised college, faculty or institute positioned inside the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCTD).

The Karnataka state meeting handed the National Law School of India (modification) Act of 2020 in March this 12 months and it acquired the assent of the Governor in May.

The modification in the Act offers for a 25 per cent horizontal reservation for college kids of Karnataka in NLSIU.

A scholar of Karnataka, as per the modification, can be one who has studied in a recognised instructional establishment of the state for not lower than 10 years earlier than the qualifying examination.