CLAT paper error-free, says expert committee report: HC judge sceptical

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 expert committee has found that the CLAT 2015 LLB question paper has no errors, the Punjab & Haryana high court was told yesterday in a writ filed by CLAT 2015 candidate Agrima Lailer on 12 June through advocate Ravinder Malik.

Lailer told Legally India that CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow’s counsel yesterday submitted a sealed cover to the Punjab & Haryana high court stating that the expert committee - formed for the second-time since the CLAT 2015 results were declared – has reported that the errors referred to it were, in fact, not errors.

P&H HC Justice RK Jain, who was discussing the contents of the sealed cover, responded to the convenor’s counsel that even he could spot at least one obvious error, citing the analogy question 25 that had clearly relied on wrong definitions in the word pair ‘dulcet-raucous’, Lailer said.

Lailer’s writ, which brings before the court 16 alleged errors in the question paper, is posted to be heard on Thursday.

This is the second error-evaluation expert panel to have been formed by the CLAT office this year, on the orders of the Bombay high court, after the first panel only found two errors out of many more alleged errors referred to it by candidates and experts.

Writs in various high courts, including Lailer’s, have so far alleged nearly 40 errors in the LLB question paper.

Most NLUs have already started with admissions despite earlier high court orders asking for admissions to be conditional on the expert committee’s findings.

Comments

Anonymous 14 Jul 2015, 14:54
+0 -5
Ye toh hona hi tha! And what can the courts do now. It is better to dispose of all the writs now considering it is fait accompli. No point of giving tarik pe tarik. They will surely not make their own kofin.
The Square Root 14 Jul 2015, 15:11
+4 -3
When you see a brazen child who causes harm to the society at large, remember that it is not the child's fault.

The fault is of his parents who had all the power, and yet allowed his brazenness to reach thus far.

The cancer is in their flesh and blood.

Thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter—
Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh,
Which I must needs call mine.
Thou art a boil, a plague-sore
or embossed carbuncle
In my corrupted blood.

King Lear (Act 2, Scene 4)
? 14 Jul 2015, 16:15
+23 -4
horrible..
Seema Sapra 15 Jul 2015, 05:36
+11 -22
horrible ... Couldn't say it better.
? 15 Jul 2015, 08:26
+16 -0
after all this NO..
Seema Sapra 18 Jul 2015, 12:25
+3 -1
How interesting when "?" calls this CLAT imbroglio horrible, he gets 17 likes, and when I echo that saying I couldn't have said it better, I get 15 dislikes - waiting to see if my number can go up to 100. :)
Hansraj Kak 27 Jul 2015, 16:22
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Seema ji,It appears even after almost 10 days no one is actually bothered to give you 100 likes.Who has time these days?Frankly speaking,who cares?This is the reality of this modern age.And then you wish that the unsuccessful candidates will drag the matter to a logical conclusion?They have lot better things to do.Most of them are already in some good and reputed college/university.Look for 2016 CLAT.Give some constructive suggestion to make it a real corruption free CLAT.
Guest 14 Jul 2015, 16:40
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Classic CLAT committee. I'm sure it's the same committee that they had set up earlier.
guest 15 Jul 2015, 06:08
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It is surprising the expert panel members dont worry for their reputations. Hope they get blacklisted from participation in other panels going forward
kianganz 15 Jul 2015, 06:11
+10 -0
But - surprise!! - no one knows who any of them are!! :D
sumkrsc 15 Jul 2015, 07:20
+7 -1
Is it an Expert Committee which has no expertise or Ex-parte Committee to act as a puppet of Mr. Gangwar & Co. to hush up the cases in various High Courts to cover up their mischiefs (would be Vyapam). Why the Hon'ble judges are not forming Expert Committee to review the wrong Answer Keys to save the morale of budding Lawyers.
Funny Lady 15 Jul 2015, 07:40
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Asking the respondent in a case -- who has a natural bias to defend his own stated position -- to form a new Expert Committee, is like requesting an accused to bring his own family members from his village to adjudicate his case.

Bharat hamaari mata hai
Aagey kuchh nahin aata hai
Seema Sapra 15 Jul 2015, 07:46
+20 -9
I suspect that some of the students who petitioned the courts are being pressured to let the issue die. These are probably students who got into NLUs and therefore risk retaliation if they take their legal challenges too far.

But in the interest of justice, I would love to see a bunch of students who have nothing to lose (at the end of the day a law degree (from anywhere) is a law degree) to get together and drag this matter to its logical conclusion in the courts - contempt, corruption, expose the ineptitude, the malafides, the cover-up, the lies to the courts etc.

Such students who have nothing to lose & who take up this fight & hopefully have access to lawyers who will support them will not only do something admirable but also achieve recognition. So don't give up guys even if your admissions are now set in stone for practical reasons, fight this matter to the end, treat it as practical experience, put it on your cv ...
sumkrsc 15 Jul 2015, 10:02
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Respected Mam,

You have rightly presumed the sentiments of the admitted students. But there is a large number of left out students and their parents who can join hands for eliminating the suspected Vyapam in the CLAT Committee. Now let us join hands to gather more information/opinion from legal fraternity and put them in a National Forum for further investigation, not for anyone's harm but to testify/rectify the students/parents knowledge for future reference. Otherwise we will not know the correct answers to teach/refer our next budding lawyers. CLAT Authorities will never come out with the truth because they are terribly afraid right now.

With regards,
S.Kumar
abc 16 Jul 2015, 10:52
+7 -3
Madam, you rely too much on your conjectures and surmises.
Seema Sapra 17 Jul 2015, 03:27
+10 -4
Oh abc, we are much beyond mere conjectures and surmmises now, as far as contempt, ineptitude, malafides, cover-up, lies to the courts, etc., by the CLAT organizers is concerned. There is sufficient hard evidence to establish all this now, and corruption looks very likely.
Archana Savarkar 27 Jul 2015, 09:16
+1 -0
I am sure the students will not have time nor inclination to drag the matter further to court.Rather,they will be happy with their new college's /universities.No one wants to loose a year.And,after so much who would like to study in a NLU! These NLUs are the seats of corruption!Yes,the parents can unite.But,going to SC at this stage is too late.Another factor is cost.Who will fund?Most students come from middle class families.Do Seema Sapra has some solution?
Pradeep Baijal 27 Jul 2015, 10:30
+0 -0
Yes,that's true.Not only cost but also the effort required.Only people from Delhi can do it.But,cost will be huge.Perhaps,10-20 lac?Then any guarantee?Plus,now very late.
Xys 16 Jul 2015, 17:45
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http://blog.scconline.com/post/2015/07/15/high-court-under-article-226-not-entitled-to-review-answer-keys-issued-by-the-organisers-of-competitive-entrance-examinations.aspx
Jessy Jacob 28 Jul 2015, 06:36
+0 -0
The Hon.HCs will never interfere unless the report of the expert committee finds some wrong questions or answers.Since the expert committee didnt find any error,the Hon.HCs will probably do nothing at this stage.At least that's what the blog of Mr.XYS says.
Anon 17 Jul 2015, 14:09
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The identity of these "experts" should be made headlines. I doubt they would even get a position as a clerk, being so unfamiliar with language and basic logic.
:/ 19 Jul 2015, 20:39
+3 -1
shameless
Smit 20 Jul 2015, 12:49
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I also doubt on petitioner clawyer ability because they did not represent very well. In reality many of them questions copy from cat iim paper so this is copy case also so if you say to honorable h.c h.c clat have some errors along with copy case so court give order to procedure again clat commitee
? 23 Jul 2015, 08:45
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WHAT HAPPENED IN HARYANA& PUNJAB HC?