NLSIU's Ex-Vice Chancellor Moves SC Against NLAT, 2020

There has been a huge uproar ever since the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) announced its decision to conduct a separate test for law admissions. 

In a recent development to the whole debacle, a former Vice-Chancellor of (NLSIU), Bengaluru has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court. 

Advocate Sughosh Subramanyam and Vipin Nair, AoR, filed the petition on behalf of an aggrieved parent and ex-vice chancellor. The petition claims that the decision of the present Vice-Chancellor to conduct a separate test would convert NLSIU from being ‘an island of excellence’ to ‘an island of exclusion’. 

The petitioners have argued that: -

1. NLSIU's Vice-Chancellor does not have requisite consent from the academic council to conduct a separate examination;
2. The reasoning given by the NLSIU to conduct a separate test is whimsical and baseless;
3. The technical requirement poses a burden on the students. It includes having a laptop and 1 Mbps of internet speed for taking a home proctored examination, is onerous, arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal.  

in view of the above arguments, The petition urged the Supreme Court to:

1. quash the notification issued by NLSIU on September 3 for the conduct of NLAT for NLSIU admissions this year;
2. quash NLSIU's notification regarding the technical requirements to write the NLAT;
3. direct NLSIU to accept students this year on the basis of CLAT scores.