RAKESH KUMAR AGARWALLA vs NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU

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2020 Supreme(SC) 552

ASHOK BHUSHAN, R.SUBHASH REDDY, M.R.SHAH
RAKESH KUMAR AGARWALLA – Appellant
Versus
NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : W.P.No. 1030 of 2020 :Nidhesh Gupta, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, P.B. Suresh, Vipin Nair, Karthik Jayashankar, Sughosh Subramanyam, Agnish Aditya, Japneet Kaur, Madhav Gupta, Pallavi Singh, Shrutanjaya Bharadwaj, Vriti Gujral, Vishal Sinha, Gayatri Verma, Advocates
For the Appellant in SLP No. 11059 of 2020 :Nikhil Nayyar, Kush Chaturvedi, Aditya Shekhar, Priyanshree Sharma PH, Divyanshu Rai, Baibhaw Gahlaut, Shubham Gautam, Advocates
For the Respondents in W.P. No. 1030:Arvind P. Datar, Sajan Poovayya, Aditya Narayan, Advocate, Rohit Sharma, Rounak Nayak, Atul Agarwal, Lekha Chandrasekhar, Rahul Unnikrishnan, Patibhanu Singh Kharola, Raksha Agrawal, Kumar Dushyant Singh, P.S. Narasimha, K. Parameshwar, M.V. Mukunda, Aditi Tripathi, Advocates
For the Intervenor :Kush Chaturvedi, Sandeep Deshmukh, Nishant Sharma, Rajat Gaur, Sujoy Gaur, Advocate, Rakesh K. Sharma, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

Ashok Bhushan, J.

This writ petition filed in Public Interest under Article 32 of the Constitution of India questions admission notification dated 03.09.2020 issued by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru for conducting separate admission entrance examination, the National Law Aptitude Test(NLAT) scheduled for 12.09.2020. The petitioner seeks a direction to National Law School of India University (hereinafter referred to as "NLSIU") to admit students only through Common Law Admission Test, 2020(CLAT) examination scheduled to take place on 28.09.2020. The writ petition is filed by two petitioners. First petitioner is the father of a student aspiring to gain admission into five years LL.B. programme of National Law University and the petitioner No.2 is the former Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

2. We may notice certain background facts for considering the issues which have been raised in the writ petition. NLSIU, a premier Law University of the country, was established pursuant to a joint initiative of the Supreme Court of India, the Bar Council of India and the Karnataka Bar Council. Bar Council of India, set up a society,

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2020 Supreme(SC) 552

ASHOK BHUSHAN, R.SUBHASH REDDY, M.R.SHAHRAKESH KUMAR AGARWALLA – AppellantVersusNATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU – Respondent

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ASHOK BHUSHAN, R.SUBHASH REDDY, M.R.SHAH
RAKESH KUMAR AGARWALLA – Appellant
Versus
NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU – Respondent