Supreme Court Friday refused to either cancel the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 or stay the counselling process.
The apex court asked the five candidates, who were seeking quashing of the exam alleging technical glitches, to give their grievances within two days to the redressal committee.
“We cannot stop the counselling”, the bench told senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the petitioners.
A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah said in the order, “We are of the view that the petitioners shall submit the grievances within two days from today and the grievance redressal committee will take a decision on the complaints.”
Sankaranarayanan told the bench that there were technical glitches in the CLAT 2020 exam which was conducted online and certain questions were not correct. He also claimed that the software did not record some of the answers correctly and around 40,000 objections with regard to various aspects of the CLAT 2020 have been received.
“There is no response from the consortium of NLUs on around 19,000 objections”, Sankaranarayanan said, adding that there has been a software defect that led to a situation that has never happened before.
On September 21, the apex court had quashed the NLSIU Bengaluru’s notification for conducting a separate entrance exam, the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) held on September 12, for admission to its five-year law course and had directed it to admit students on the basis of CLAT 2020 results.
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