Justice Aniruddha Bose of the Supreme Court on Monday recused from hearing the challenge to the Karnataka High Court judgment striking down the 25 percent domicile reservation introduced at National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore..Justice Bose is the third judge to do so, after Justices Abdul Nazeer and UU Lalit recused earlier..On the last date of the hearing, the Court refused to stay the decision of NLSIU to horizontally reserve 25% of its seats for students domiciled in Karnataka this academic year..The Karnataka High Court had in September 2020 quashed the domicile reservation on the ground that it is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution.It was also held that the NLSIU Amendment Act, through which the domicile reservation was brought in, was ultra vires and contrary to the provisions of the parent NLSIU Act, and that the State government did not have the power to introduce domicile reservation at the University..This prompted an appeal before the Supreme Court, in which the State government claimed that the High Court erred in observing that NLSIU is not a State institution and that it is not within the control of the State.
Justice Aniruddha Bose of the Supreme Court on Monday recused from hearing the challenge to the Karnataka High Court judgment striking down the 25 percent domicile reservation introduced at National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore..Justice Bose is the third judge to do so, after Justices Abdul Nazeer and UU Lalit recused earlier..On the last date of the hearing, the Court refused to stay the decision of NLSIU to horizontally reserve 25% of its seats for students domiciled in Karnataka this academic year..The Karnataka High Court had in September 2020 quashed the domicile reservation on the ground that it is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution.It was also held that the NLSIU Amendment Act, through which the domicile reservation was brought in, was ultra vires and contrary to the provisions of the parent NLSIU Act, and that the State government did not have the power to introduce domicile reservation at the University..This prompted an appeal before the Supreme Court, in which the State government claimed that the High Court erred in observing that NLSIU is not a State institution and that it is not within the control of the State.
