Students of the KIIT law School (KlS), a constituent of the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, created history at the national level by winning National Moot Court Competition 2013. This is the first time that any team from a private university won the prestigious BCI Moot Court Competition.
At a special programme at the KlS, Founder of KIIT & KISS Dr Achyuta Samanta felicitated the winning team.The competition was organised by the MITS University, lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan, recently with a total of 40 teams participating in it. The KlS team defeated the NlIU Bhopal in the final round. The team comprised Aishvary Vikram, Navneet Sahay and Nitesh Ranjan, who were ably assisted by a research team comprising Akshay Rajpurohit, Abhinav Gupta, Bikash Shaw, Chandan Kumar, Vikash Chandra Shukla, Ajay Awasthi, Kumar Saurav and Neha Tripathi.
The KlS had defeated the team from National law School of India University, Bangalore to qualify for the finals. Aishvary Vikram was awarded as the best speaker in the semifinals and also won the best male student advocate award.
The competition required arguments, both written and oral, on four problems from the areas of Criminal law, Corporate law, Environmental law, Family law and Constitutional law.