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Disproving a common complaint that national law school graduates don’t give back to the judicial system, NLIU Bhopal alumni made up 16 out of a total of 92 candidates to have made it past the written exam cut-offs for the latest Madhya Pradesh lower judiciary recruitment, according to an NLIU alumni Facebook page.

11 LLB alumni from the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 batches, and 5 LLM alumni from the 2012, 2015 and 2017 batches of NLIU secured ranks on the provisional merit list released on 17 May, candidates on which will be inducted as civil judges in Madhya Pradesh subject to interview by the high court.

Navishta Qureshi from the 2011 LLB batch secured rank 4 in the general category. LLM alumni Anupreksha Jain from the 2017 batch secured rank 6 and Manoram Tiwari from 2017 secured rank 9 in the general category. Richa Jain from the 2009 LLB class with rank 43 was the only other alumni to have made it in the unreserved category.

The other successful alumni were:

The high court had advertised 94 posts for civil judge - grade 2, which is eligible for a pay scale of Rs 27,700 to 44,770 and a posting in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, according to local newspaper Rojgar Aur Nirman, on 9 January 2018. One other backward class (OBC) cteogry post was later deducted, the notification with the results stated.

The exam was conducted on 10 May 2018 after being postponed from 30 April 2018 due to a bank holiday on 30 April, as per notification.

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