September 28, 2020 2:05:26 PM
CLAT 2020 will take place today (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav / Representative Image)
Hours before the scheduled start of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) -2020, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed a suspected COVID-19 positive applicant to take the entrance test in a separate isolation room.
The CLAT-2020 exam, an entrance test for the 22 National Law Universities (NLUs) for admission to LLB, Integrated Five-year LLB and LLM, courses are scheduled to begin at 2pm today.
A bench headed by Judge Ashok Bhushan said that, on the facts of the present case, we are of the opinion that student Deepansh Tripathi should be allowed to take his CLAT exam on September 28, 2020 in a separate isolation room to be provided by his Center Superintendent. .
The bench also made up of Judges R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah said the student should ensure that any other non-symptomatic person files a downloaded copy of this order with the center superintendent as soon as possible.
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Once such an order is submitted, the Center Superintendent will provide a separate room for the applicant to appear for the examination. The applicant will enter the center after other candidates enter and leave the exam center first, he said.
The superior court said the center superintendent may also request the district medical director or the government hospital superintendent to provide medical personnel to provide the necessary assistance.
The student has stated that although according to the admission card given to him, symptomatic COVID-19 candidates will be assigned to an isolated room, the NLU Consortium has instructed that candidates who have tested positive and are under medical surveillance or in isolation, you will not be allowed to take the CLAT, 2020 exam.
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The bank recorded that the student has already received an admission card showing his center as ION Digital Zone IDZ Chitoura Road, Bhartiya Vidya Mandhir Shiksha Samiti in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.
In his application for intervention submitted by the student, he said that he aspires to pass the CLAT exam and has a valid admission card for the CLAT exam.
However, he is currently in isolation due to suspected COVID-positive. Otherwise, you are fine and fully ready and prepared to take the CLAT-2020 exam scheduled for September 28, you said in your application.
On September 21, the high court had ordered that the CLAT-2020 exam be conducted on September 28, taking all precautions and health care of students after following the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). ) and the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).
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Tripathi’s plea had requested a clarification of the sentence of September 21 on CLAT and an order to the Consortium regarding the refusal to appear in the entrance examination to applicants suffering from Covid-19 by not providing isolation rooms in the examination centers.
According to the latest order of the CLAT Consortium, candidates who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are under medical surveillance will not be able to take the CLAT 2020 exam scheduled for September 28, 2020.
The student in his application said: “The sudden change in the position of the Consortium of National Law Universities has deprived the applicant of his fundamental right under Article 14 of the Constitution of India to be treated as an equal and have the opportunity to appear in the exam on September 28, 2020, that he was otherwise entitled to do so like any other student. “
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