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.