Judgement of the Day.-RAKESH KUMAR AGARWALL v. NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY
RAKESH KUMAR AGARWALL v. NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU
Facts
The petition was filed by Rakesh Kumar Agarwalla (father of a law aspirant) and Professor R
Venkata Rao (the former Vice-Chancellor of the NLSIU), challenging the decision taken by the
NLSIU to back out of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and to hold a separate
admission test.
Judgment
The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the decision of the National Law School of India
University (NLSIU), Bengaluru to hold a separate admission test by way of the National Legal
Aptitude Test (NLAT).
The NLSIU has been directed to admit students for the present academic year (2020-21) based
on the scores of the CLAT.