The candidates who had appeared in the May 13 Common law Admission Test (ClAT) and complained of glitches, could make online representation by 7 pm of May 27 to the two-member grievance redressal committee set up by National University of Advanced legal Studies (NUAlS), the Supreme Court said on Friday.
A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra was informed by the counsel for NUAlS that they have constituted a two-member panel, headed by retired Kerala High Court judge, Justice MR Hariharan Nair, which would look into the complaints from the students.
NUAlS, with the aid of private firm M/s Sify Technologies ltd, had conducted the ClAT 2018 on May 13 for admissions in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law courses offered at premier law schools. The results of the examination is scheduled to be declared on May 31.
Soon after the exam, several pleas were filed in six different high courts across the country and also in the apex court seeking quashing of the ClAT alleging inconsistencies and technical glitches during the May 13 online test.
The Bench on Friday said the panel, which also comprises Dr Santhosh Kumar G, Head of Department of Computer Science at Cochin University of Science and Technology, would examine the complaints and representations received from the students till 7 PM of May 27 and take appropriate decision on a case-to-case basis after “due analysis”.
The court was informed by the NUAlS counsel that they would create a dedicated e-mail account on which the students could send their complaints, and its publicity would be done on the official website of ClAT “very shortly within two hours”.
The Bench said the students could register their complaints and representations on the dedicated e-mail account.
“The committee will examine every singular representation received online till now and any further representation which would be received till 7 PM of Sunday (May 27) and after due analysis, appropriate decision on a case-to-case basis will be taken by the committee,” the top court said.
It directed that the committee should first scrutinise around 250 complaints which have already been received, and take appropriate decision by May 29. Then in the second phase, it would deal with the new representations which are received online.
The apex court said a report giving the status of the complaints and decisions taken on them be filed before it by May 30.