New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed NLSIU Bengaluru's notification for a separate entrance exam, the National Law Aptitude Test-2020 held on September 12, for admission to its five-year integrated BA LLB (Hons) programme.
While cancelling the NLAT-2020 entrance exam, the apex court also directed that admissions in all 22 National Law Universities (NLUs) be conducted in accordance with CLAT-2020 which is scheduled to be held on September 28.
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The bench comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah have pronounced the verdict on a petition challenging the NLSUI's decision of holding NLAT and had contended that the university does not have the power to conduct another exam instead of CLAT.
Earlier the court had allowed the university to hold NLAT as all the preparations were done but had barred it from declaring results till the pendency of the matter in the court.
The apex court had heard the plea on the constitutionality of the exam thereafter in length and had reserved the verdict on 17th September. However, on Monday the court directed that CLAT should be held on 28th September, the scheduled date, without any hinderance from NLSUI and results shall be declared as soon as possible so that the admission process can start.
This year CLAT was delayed in view of COVID 19 and consequent lockdown which led to NLSUI announcing its own entrance exam NLAT.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralised national level entrance test for admissions to 22 NLUs in India. Bengaluru's National Law School of India University is one of them.
