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Now granted that this particular news does not concern institutes/departments/centres that offer legal education but it does raise following questions given that the methodology for assessment in NIRF is same for every participating institute. It is also not the first time that such apparent irregularities have been observed in NIRF between well-established institutes falling behind relatively newer ones.
(1) How reliable is the data submitted by institutes to NIRF?
(2) Is NIRF an adequate source of information for prospective applicants to assess the quality of an institute?
(3) How can NIRF be reformed to better safeguard against being hijacked via data manipulation?
2) it gives an indication of likely ranking, but in absence of any other metric can work as a bad proxy. Case in point is an institute in Bhuvaneshwar, and not the one that you are thinking, this one does not have a website or a building but is in the top 10 law school in India as per NIRF.
3) spend money and hire a cheap audit firm to randomly check one data stream per submission and penalise institution which submit false info