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Given that you’re from SLS N, you need to put double the effort than usual if you want a good shot in the legal world.
Harsh truth but aspire to keep your GPA above 8.5 atleast.
At a college that does not have guaranteed campus placements (broadly, anything newer than GNLU), your GPA is largely the first thing that could get you some average internships. Out of those average internships, you'll have to work hard to get recommendations and references to better internships. In the best case scenario, this should continue till you get expressions of interest in offers from partners at firms that you can see you yourself working at.
Now, of course, good moots, papers etc provide some added value to your CV, but it's mostly about the networking opportunities that they provide, and how you could use those to convert them into internships and beyond.
But, all of the above can be truncated correspondingly depending upon whether you already have networked contacts from your family, friends and the like.
At the end of the day, from a college like yours in a market like today's, even a mathematically perfect GPA can only serve as a facilitating entry point to an internship. Beyond that, your hard work will have to shine. All the best!