'You May Approach The Appropriate High Court', Madhya Pradesh HC Allows Withdrawal Of Plea Challenging NLAT 2020
Live LawThe Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday took up the plea by a CLAT aspirant who had moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court challenging the sudden withdrawal of NLSIU Bangalore from CLAT 2020, to hold a separate entrance test namely NLAT 2020. To this, the counsel for the petitioner Somit Raizada relied on the Judgment of the Apex Court in the matter of Om Prakash v. Union of India 2006 SCC 207 and reiterated the ruling of the Apex Court that the High Court can exercise power to issue a direction, order, or writs for the enforcement of any of the fundamental rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution or for any other purpose if the cause of action wholly or in part had arisen within the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction notwithstanding that the seat of the Government or authority or the residence of the person against whom the direction, order, or writ is issued is not within the said territories. Consequently, the Madhya Pradesh HC allowed the petitioner to withdraw the petition challenging NLAT and approach appropriate High Court. Notably, the High Court of Jharkhand on Friday dismissed the writ petition challenging the decision of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, to hold a separate admission test called the National Law Aptitude Test, after backing out of the Common Law Admission Test for want of jurisdiction.