The Supreme Court today permitted a Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidate who is COVID-19 positive to write the exam today at an isolation centre..The Court has directed Advocate Garima Prashad, lawyer for the applicant, to take a print out of its order and serve it to the authorities conducting CLAT before 12 pm to aid the student in appearing for the law entrance examination scheduled to be held tody..CLAT 2020: Urgent application in SC seeks clarification on provision of isolation rooms at exam centres for COVID affected aspirants.Applicant should be permitted to take his CLAT examination on 28.09.2020 in a separate isolation room to be provided by his Centre Superintendent. The applicant shall ensure that downloaded copy of this order should be presented before his Centre Superintendent as early as possible by any other non-symptomatic person. On such order being produced, Centre Superintendent shall provide a separate room for applicant to appear in the examination.Reads SC order.The court has further ordered that applicant shall enter into centre "after other candidates take entry and shall first leave the examination centre.""Centre Superintendent may also request the Chief Medical officer of the District or Superintendent, Government Hospital to provide a medical staff to render necessary assistance," reads the SC order..However, the Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah clarified that this order was only limited to the applicant and had no bearing on any other student. Though Advocate Sumit Chander urged the Court to pass similar orders for other similarly placed students, it refused to pass any such blanket order. "You are only wasting the Court's time," observed Justice Bhushan. .It was stated in the application filed before the Court that the applicant was under a bona fide impression that the CLAT exam centres would have isolation centres for symptomatic candidates.He had submitted that he was assured by the Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore on this count via a public statement in July this year..However, in the new set of instructions issued, the Consortium has excluded candidates who are under isolation, on account of which the applicant would not be permitted to take the entrance exam. The applicant submits,"The sudden change in the stand of the Consortium of the National Lw Universities has deprived the applicant of his fundamental right under Article 14 of the Constitution to be treated as an equal and be given the opportunity to appear in the examination on 28.09.2020 when otherwise he was well entitled to like any other student.".Owing to this contingency, the applicant filed an urgent application before the Supreme Court praying for a clarification in its judgment of September 21. In this verdict, the Court had, among other things, directed for CLAT 2020 to be held as per the schedule and in accordance with the SOPs issued by the concerned Ministries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic..[Breaking] Supreme Court quashes conduct of NLAT 2020; NLSIU to admit students through CLAT this year.(Read order)
The Supreme Court today permitted a Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidate who is COVID-19 positive to write the exam today at an isolation centre..The Court has directed Advocate Garima Prashad, lawyer for the applicant, to take a print out of its order and serve it to the authorities conducting CLAT before 12 pm to aid the student in appearing for the law entrance examination scheduled to be held tody..CLAT 2020: Urgent application in SC seeks clarification on provision of isolation rooms at exam centres for COVID affected aspirants.Applicant should be permitted to take his CLAT examination on 28.09.2020 in a separate isolation room to be provided by his Centre Superintendent. The applicant shall ensure that downloaded copy of this order should be presented before his Centre Superintendent as early as possible by any other non-symptomatic person. On such order being produced, Centre Superintendent shall provide a separate room for applicant to appear in the examination.Reads SC order.The court has further ordered that applicant shall enter into centre "after other candidates take entry and shall first leave the examination centre.""Centre Superintendent may also request the Chief Medical officer of the District or Superintendent, Government Hospital to provide a medical staff to render necessary assistance," reads the SC order..However, the Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah clarified that this order was only limited to the applicant and had no bearing on any other student. Though Advocate Sumit Chander urged the Court to pass similar orders for other similarly placed students, it refused to pass any such blanket order. "You are only wasting the Court's time," observed Justice Bhushan. .It was stated in the application filed before the Court that the applicant was under a bona fide impression that the CLAT exam centres would have isolation centres for symptomatic candidates.He had submitted that he was assured by the Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore on this count via a public statement in July this year..However, in the new set of instructions issued, the Consortium has excluded candidates who are under isolation, on account of which the applicant would not be permitted to take the entrance exam. The applicant submits,"The sudden change in the stand of the Consortium of the National Lw Universities has deprived the applicant of his fundamental right under Article 14 of the Constitution to be treated as an equal and be given the opportunity to appear in the examination on 28.09.2020 when otherwise he was well entitled to like any other student.".Owing to this contingency, the applicant filed an urgent application before the Supreme Court praying for a clarification in its judgment of September 21. In this verdict, the Court had, among other things, directed for CLAT 2020 to be held as per the schedule and in accordance with the SOPs issued by the concerned Ministries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic..[Breaking] Supreme Court quashes conduct of NLAT 2020; NLSIU to admit students through CLAT this year.(Read order)
