Update 10 June: Notice was served this morning on the CLAT secretariat, which is to respond by 18 June. Agarwal said that there was no stay on the counselling, though the prayer for the suit was for the CLAT result to be "withdrawn completely" so there was still scope for the court to intervene.
A Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) taker has filed a petition to stay the CLAT counselling process and to hold a new exam not marred by the ongoing controversy surrounding the recently republished results.
Advocate Pulkit Agarwal said that he and Siddharth Jain had filed a petition before the Karkardooma vacation bench of the Delhi district court on behalf of Tahini Bhushan, the sister of a CLAT applicant, which is scheduled to be heard tomorrow at 10 am.
The petition seeks an "ex-parte ad-interim order restraining the defendant No. 1 [the CLAT committee] from conducting the counseling of CLAT as per the revised result of CLAT declared on 06th June, 2014" and that a "fresh CLAT needs to be conducted on immediate basis and the result declared by defendant no. 1 containing discrepancies must not be allowed to determine the future of 33,000 candidates".
The petition claims that apparent errors in the CLAT and an alleged continuing mix up in the answer sheets of candidates required the court to take action: "That the defendant no. 1 have not been able to conduct the CLAT 2014 flawlessly. A lot of discrepancies pertain with regards to the result and the revised result declared by the defendant no. 1 on 06th June, 2014 still appears to be faulty prima facie. The clarity and transparency is absent."
More background on the CLAT 2014 controversy
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Thanks so much!
drive.google.com/file/d/0B-mzcMX2HT3sMUNybGg5VkRjQWc/edit?usp=sharing
A re-exam is the only way the CLAT committee can salvage its credibility and reinstill confidence in persons like us. This nagging feeling of a possible scam in this process terribly disillusions aspirants like us, especially at the nascent stage of our professional life.
Most importantly, we start off our professional life with a bitter taste and it does not augur well for the potential legal eagles of this country.
Why couldn't the CLAT committee conduct a computerised online exam at their premises or from an outsourced agency - The results will be transparent and instant, no chance of a potential scam. The fact that CLAT conducts the exam, as it is now, gives us a feeling that they are keeping an option open for the Privileged Ones - Sorry for the pensive note, but please empathise with the ones who are not in the privileged list.
I implore, all concerned to do the needful, as well as to the Honourable Jury who is dealing with this appeal to give us all a fair chance and an error free chance.
Madhya Pradesh CLAT 13 - 14 in top 100, CLAT 14 - 13 in top 100
Bihar CLAT 13 - CLAT 13 - 5 in top 100, CLAT 14 - 2 in Top 100
Andhra Pradesh - CLAT 13 - 5 in top 100, CLAT 14 - 7 in Top 100
Given the consistency of all the states in terms of people in top ranks, across several years, including this one, it is unlikely that any state has been given preferential treatment in the rankings. That would drastically drop the number of people from states like the ones i mentioned in the top 100 ranks.
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