SC Stays Law Entrance CET in Tamilnadu

July 19 : The Supreme Court of India Wednesday stayed the Madras High Court Judgment which directed the TN Government to hold the CET for Law Admission to Colleges and Universities in Tamilnadu for the Session 2007-08.

A three-Judge Bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice Dalveer Bhandari stayed the June 19 judgment on a special leave petition (SLP) filed by the State challenging the judgment.

The Bench, after hearing senior counsel Abhishek Singhvi for the State and K.M. Vijayan for one of the students, stayed the operation of the judgment and issued notice to the respondents.

Earlier, the State government had abolished the CET for engineering, medical and other professional courses and decided to admit students on the basis of marks obtained in the higher secondary examination. For law courses also a Government Order was passed in April abolishing the Law CET.

The State in its SLP said: “The Rules made by the Bar Council of India do not require that admission into law degree courses shall be made only on the basis of CET. There was no arbitrariness in the method of selection of students as selection was done purely on the basis of merit.”

Source: The Hindu