The judicial challenge to Maharashtra’s CET for law has come to an end. Today, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the petition filed by law aspirant Kedar Warad against the Bombay High Court’s decision that had upheld the common entrance test..On August 29 this year, Madan B Lokur and RK Agarwal JJ. had issued notice in Warad’s petition, asking both the Bar Council of India and the Maharashtra government to file a response. Today, the same bench came down on the petitioner for what it deemed as a suppression of material facts..Why the Bombay High Court did not strike down the Maharashtra Law CET [Read judgment].The Bench asked the petitioner’s lawyer whether the petitioner had, in fact, appeared for the CET. When the lawyer responded in the affirmative, the court asked the lawyer to clarify where this particular fact was mentioned in their written submissions. When the petitioner failed to do so, the court proceeded to dismiss the case..The court observed that this amounted to material suppression of facts, something which has to be viewed seriously.
The judicial challenge to Maharashtra’s CET for law has come to an end. Today, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the petition filed by law aspirant Kedar Warad against the Bombay High Court’s decision that had upheld the common entrance test..On August 29 this year, Madan B Lokur and RK Agarwal JJ. had issued notice in Warad’s petition, asking both the Bar Council of India and the Maharashtra government to file a response. Today, the same bench came down on the petitioner for what it deemed as a suppression of material facts..Why the Bombay High Court did not strike down the Maharashtra Law CET [Read judgment].The Bench asked the petitioner’s lawyer whether the petitioner had, in fact, appeared for the CET. When the lawyer responded in the affirmative, the court asked the lawyer to clarify where this particular fact was mentioned in their written submissions. When the petitioner failed to do so, the court proceeded to dismiss the case..The court observed that this amounted to material suppression of facts, something which has to be viewed seriously.