The petitioner should withdraw the plea and file a new one if required when the new dates are announced, NLU said.
The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has told the Delhi High Court that since the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 has been postponed further, the plea seeking candidates to be allowed to take the exam from their respective homes instead of at exam centres, is no longer maintainable.
NLU further said that the petitioner should withdraw the plea and file a fresh one if required when the new dates are announced. It also said that the petitioner’s pleas were premised on the admission test of National Law University Delhi (NLUD), as it has its own entrance exam which is different from CLAT, which has also been postponed.
Justice Jayanth Nath has however adjourned the matter to September 10, stating that the petitioner in the instant matter is asking that candidates shall be allowed to take the online exam from their homes in view of ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the country.
On August 4, the court had asked the Centre to inform, whether it will be permissible to conduct such an exam at physical centres in view of the ongoing pandemic. It had also issued notices to the Central government and the NLU, to clear their stand by August 10 on the petition that has sought that the online CLAT exams be allowed to be undertaken from home.
No response has been filed by the Central government yet, its standing counsel Ajay Digpaul said.
CLAT is a centralised exam for admissions to Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses in law in 22 NLUs across the country and is conducted by the consortium. Under the CLAT 2020 notification, the exam will be conducted online at notified centres where computers will be set up for the candidates to access the test.
The counsel appearing for the consortium, on August 4, had said that the pleas is not maintainable in Delhi as the consortium is based in Bengaluru.
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