ABVP, law students in HC against CLAT- 2018

New Delhi, May 18: The Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad ( ABVP) and two law students on Friday moved the high court challenging the Common Law Admission Test ( CLAT) held recently and seeking direction to appoint an independent body for conducting the examination afresh.

The plea sought quashing of the CLAT- 2018, claiming mismanagement and incompetency of the national law universities in conducting the examination on a rotational basis.

The petition, filed through advocate Namit Saxena, sought the court’s intervention against the “inconsistent, negligent, sub- standard and inefficient implementation” of CLAT which was held by its working committee, implementation committee and the National University of Advanced Legal Studies on May 13.

The exam is conducted for the purpose of admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law offered at premier national law schools of the country.

Besides ABVP, the two petitioners are Vibhav Chandra and Mangesh Mani, who had appeared for the exam and faced problems, including technical glitches.

The petition said there had been repeated failures and technical glitches every year in the conduct of CLAT and students were currently facing a threat to their career due to failure of the authorities.