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I am a judicial officer.
Most of my colleagues are from traditional law colleges. Even judicial Officers from 2000 to 2020 NLU era are mostly law college students.
I have never seen the top NLU rich/intelligent/prestigious family / royal blood types joining the service. Or it's quite rare.
I am not an NLU product. But I know the nlu trend.
Subordinate Judiciary cannot match the NLU life.
Personally I hate this NLU culture. I am coming from a not so financially good family. Couldn't afford NLU education. I worked a few years under a senior before becoming an officer.
Only students from Lower nlus may go for judicial exams as opportunities are limited. That is why bihar nlu has a lot of judicial Officers from what I heard.
I have seen LLM students from top NLUs joining service of other states like Madhya pradesh. But LLM students in NLus are half as good as their undergraduate batch.
Atleast in the top nlus going for judicial exams are don't by the bottom of the barell [...].
The reason is the (1) lack of opportunities and (2) heavy transfers throughout maharashtra.
There is an exception -
While an average judicial officer in most Indian States is from traditional law college and poor background.
Delhi judicial Officers are from very rich NLU backgrounds. Even in rajasthan you can see rich nlu students becoming judicial officers.
A rich top nlu high clat rank student becoming a magistrate in a rural court would be funny 😁😅
Nlu student may not enjoy small talk in a small court. We find happiness in small things. I have worked in Mumbai too. But rural and urban is very different.
They will bring macbook laptops, big cars and city level English to rural. And advocates and litigants would stare all the time.
Most nlu lawyers have only seen high court and don't know how sub Judiciary works in India.