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Court was hearing a PIL by a student of DU, Faculty of Law, Prince Singh challenging DU’s notification dated August 4, according to which it is to consider CLAT 2023 scores for admission to the five-year integrated law courses
The Delhi High Court on Thursday questioned the Delhi University's decision to admit students to the five-year integrated law course solely on the basis of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT-UG), 2023.
The division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula said that when other central universities are taking admissions for the course on the basis of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) UG 2023 introduced by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Delhi University is “not special”.
“Under the National Education Policy, once the decision is taken by the Government of India, Ministry of Education that admissions are to be done in central universities only on the basis of CUET, then you are not special. Very sorry,” CJ Sharma remarked orally.
The court directed DU’s counsel to file the counter affidavit and also granted time to the Centre to file its response in the plea. Accordingly, the court posted the matter for further consideration on August 25, 2023.
The bench was hearing a PIL by a student of DU, Faculty of Law, Prince Singh challenging DU’s notification dated August 4, whereby it was to consider CLAT 2023 scores for admission to the five-year integrated law courses.
Singh, in his plea, stated that the impugned notification had imposed “unreasonable and arbitrary condition”.
“That the condition imposed for admission to the Five-year Integrated Law Courses at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi is wholly unreasonable and arbitrary. It lacks any intelligible differentia and has no rational nexus with the object of admission to the Five-year Integrated Law Courses at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi”, the plea stated.
Case Title: Prince Singh v. Faculty of Law, University of Delhi & Ors.
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