Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Re-Examination Of AILET 2020 For NLU-D Admission

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere in Delhi High Court's order dismissing a petition by an OBC candidate who had secured AIR 182 seeking re-examination for All India Law Entrance Test, 2020 (AILET-20).

"You got time for the exam, what is the grievance? Why do you raise the aspirations of these people? By filing the pleas you raise aspirations. These are competitive exams, some make it, some people don't make it. Sorry," the bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh remarked while dismissing the SLP.

Remarking that by filing such petitions, the students were being harassed, the bench further said, "When you file such petitions, by raising such pleas it's their harassment that you're doing. They expect something. These are all large scale exams."

Appearing for the student, the Counsel had submitted that the exam was not conducted properly and that blank paper was not placed on the table. It was also the counsel's contention that the petitioner had experienced various issues while conducting the exam.

The SLP was preferred by Suraj Kumar Sahoo an OBC candidate who had scored 182 AIR in the general category assailing Delhi High Court's order of dismissing his writ seeking issuance of directions to National Law University Delhi to conduct afresh re examination of All India Law Entrance Test, 2020 (AILET-20) conducted through the National Testing Agency at its test center on September 29, 2020.

The petitioner before the Delhi High Court had urged that they faced various issues while conducting the exam. It was also contended that the candidates were asked to go from one end of the center for verification during the examination while the candidates' timer was running out which was not the case in other centers. Petitioner further contended that there was a lot of commotion as some of the candidates were not able to log-in and faced other problems.

The Delhi High Court Single Bench of Justice Jayant Nath while dismissing the petition had said, "It appears that the petitioners have received the full 90 minutes to complete the exam. There appears to have been perhaps some issues faced by some of the students around them. In my opinion, that per se cannot be a ground to set aside the exam for the entire center."

Case Title: Suraj Kumar Sahoo v. National Law University Delhi And Ors.| SLP(C) No. 13927/2020

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