NLSIU Bengaluru Justifies Separate Entrance Test, SC Reserves Verdict on Its Validity
News 18India's one of the most prestigious National Law School of India University of Bengaluru Thursday strongly defended in the Supreme Court the decision to hold separate entrance examination NLAT-2020 instead of CLAT. Common Law Admission Test is a centralised national level entrance test for admissions to twenty two National Law Universities in India and Bengaluru's NLSIU was one of them. The top court, which reserved its order for pronouncement on September 21 on a plea challenging the separate NLAT, was told by senior advocate Arvind Datar, appearing for the NLSIU, Bengaluru, that the institution has been removed from the consortium of 22 NLUs and moreover the fact that it has the trimester system was not considered while fixing the date for CLAT by the consortium. It has said such a unilateral decision to hold National Law Aptitude Test as entrance exam to the university was taken without any application of mind, thereby completely prejudicing the students at the final hour and has put their career at jeopardy for purely whimsical reasons.