The Karnataka High Court has directed the National Law School of India University not to reserve seats for Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe (SC/ST) students from other states. This order of the High Court was in response to a petition filed by Lokesh, on behalf of his minor daughter Preeti. The petitioner's daughter had written the Common Law Entrance Test (CLET) and was allotted a seat in the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kerala, but was refused admission on the grounds that she was not a Schedule Caste candidate from Kerala. She was then given admission in Gandhinagar National Law University , Gujarat, although her first preference was the National Law School, Bangalore. NLSIU had already allotted its SC/ST quota to 12 students from other states.

The petitioner then filed a petition before the Karnataka High Court praying that his daughter be given admission in NLSIU, and also sought to quash the second provisional list of candidates at NUALS, GNLU and NLSIU. The Court admitted the petition in part, and opined that NLSIU would be bound by the Presidential order of 1950 notifying the SC/STs under Article 341 and 342 of the Constitution. The Court held that SC/ST reservation could not be extended to students migrating from other states and asked the University to admit the petitioner after considering her eligibility.

The petitioner was represented by Senior Advocate Ravivarma Kumar. NLSIU was represented by the offices of Holla & Holla, with whom they have a long-standing relationship.