The Jabalpur high court on Tuesday (23 June) stayed the downgrading of at least 15 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidates who were allotted NLIU Bhopal in the first allotment list under the Madhya Pradesh state domicile category, but were later assigned lower-preference colleges in the second list.
According to Vikas Awasthi, one of the petitioners before the Jabalpur High Court, all 15 candidates were allotted NLIU Bhopal under the state domicile category when the first list came out on 9th June.
When the second list allotted them other institutes despite their preferences being ‘locked’, they protested before the CLAT convener committee at RMNLU.
The CLAT authorities had informed them that NLIU Bhopal had asked the CLAT convenors to change the published allocations, because they intended to give admission in the domicile category horizontally and not vertically as advertised in the CLAT brochure.
The Jabalpur high court stayed the change in allocations in the second list and maintained the status quo of 9 June, when the first list came out. While they are yet to receive a copy of the order, Awasthi said that they have personally informed both NLIU Bhopal as well as the CLAT convener at RMLNLU, and also sent mail to all 16 CLAT colleges.
Legally India had reported on 17 June how a number of CLAT candidates who had been allotted NLIU Bhopal in the first list, had ‘locked’ the preference by paying the Rs 50,000 counselling fees but were later shunted downwards rather than upwards in the second allotment list.
Only a few days later, without any apparent notice, NLIU then dropped 26 unreserved state seats that were advertised in the CLAT brochure, instead adding those 26 seats to the all-India unreserved category.
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See NALSAR where a student at rank 701 got it through domicile, which is vertical reservation.
This is the difference!
I will tell you whats the real story. These Kids have got the law universities they have deserved, but they now want to take advantage of a mistake which the CLAT Authorities made to power their way to NLIU. But, then I don't blame these guys, who would want to study in HNLU Raipur/ GNLU Gandhinagar when you could have studied in NLIU
What you mentioned as preposterous is actually legally valid to the extent of the kid having a prima facie case if CLAT accepted money from him on that pretext and refuses to give it back later.
The kids may be trying to take advantage, but they have been given the chance of doing so through sheer incompetence of the Committee, of which, whether you like it or not, your VC is a part. And whatever you'd to say, that could have been easily pointed out without belittling other NLUs; the fact that you chose to do so merely indicates your immaturity.