Plea In High Court Challenges Delhi University’s Decision To Offer Admission In Five Year Integrated Law Courses Solely Based On CLAT 2023 Result

A public interest litigation has been moved in the Delhi High Court challenging Delhi University’s decision to offer admission in its newly introduced five-year integrated law courses solely on the basis of CLAT-UG 2023 result.

The matter was heard today by a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula who granted time to the varsity’s counsel to respond to the plea.

However, the court did not issue any formal notice in the matter today and listed it for hearing on August 17.

The petition has been moved by Prince Singh, a student of Delhi University, Faculty of Law, challenging the varsity’s notification issued on August 04.

It is Singh’s case that the varsity, while issuing the impugned notification, has imposed an “unreasonable and arbitrary condition” that the admission to five-year integrated law courses shall be solely based upon merit in the CLAT- UG 2023 result, which is violative of the right to equality under Article 14 and right to education under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

“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 reads.

The respondents in the PIL are Faculty of Law of Delhi University, Vice Chancellor of the varsity, University Grants Commission and Union of India through Ministry of Education.

Title: Prince Singh v. Faculty of Law, University of Delhi & Ors.