JUDGMENT :

1. This case is taken up through video conferencing.

2. The present writ petition has been preferred for quashing the notice dated 03.09.2020 (Annexure-3 to the writ petition) issued by the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, declaring that a separate examination for admission to its Five Years B.A, LL.B. (Hons.) degree programme will be held on 12.09.2020.

3. The factual background of the case as stated in the writ petition is that the in the year 1987 the first National Law University namely, the National Law School of India University was established in Bengaluru, Karnataka (hereinafter referred as ‘NLSIU, Bengaluru’)- respondent no.1 in furtherance of second-generation reforms of legal education. Thereafter, a number of National Law Universities have been established in different States with the primary objective of providing highest standards of legal education and to make Indian legal education comparable with the most reputed international institutions of legal education. Till date 23 NLUs have been established in various states of India. A PIL being CWP No. 68 of 2006 was filed in the Supreme Court of India in the year 2006 seeking test for admission