The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Thursday pleas against the conduct of the Common Law Admission Test 2018 (CLAT) and asked petitioners to place on record orders passed by six High Courts in the case.
A Vacation Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha asked the lawyers appearing for the petitioners to serve the copy of their petitions to respondents, including the Centre.
The petitioners told the Bench that the High Courts of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bombay, Punjab and Haryana and Rajasthan, both the Jaipur and Jodhpur Benches, were hearing separate pleas challenging the CLAT 2018 examination and notices have been issued in some of these matters.
CLAT is held for admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law at national law schools.
The examination was organised by CLAT working committee and implementation committee and the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) and the 2018 results are expected to be declared on May 31.
“Have any reply, status report or orders been passed by any of these High Courts? You find it out if you can. Just give us a compilation of orders, if any, passed by these High Courts,” the Bench said.
The petitioners have sought quashing of the CLAT 2018 examination besides a re-test alleging that several inconsistencies had cropped up during the test held on May 13.
