<p class="title">A group of 29 students have filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court, seeking cancellation of the Common Law Admission Test 2018 (CLAT) held on May 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Mohan M Shantanagoudar agreed to put the petition for consideration on Wednesday, a day before the results of the test are scheduled to be announced.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Advocate Zoheb Hossain mentioned the petition filed by Akshat Aggarwal and others for urgent listing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioners also sought a direction to conduct the examinations afresh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Notably, on May 25, the top court had approved setting up of a panel headed by former Kerala High Court judge M R Hariharan Nair and comprising a professor of Cochin University, Santosh Kumar G, to look into grievances of the candidates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, that conducted the tests, has been asked to file a status report on Wednesday, after inviting complaints of the candidates by Sunday 7 pm and addressing the issues, including technical glitches that they faced.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A batch of petitions earlier filed by candidates in the top court, as well as various high courts, sought quashing of the CLAT 2018 examination besides a re-test claiming that several inconsistencies had cropped up during the test held on May 13 for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in premier National Law Universities.</p>
<p class="title">A group of 29 students have filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court, seeking cancellation of the Common Law Admission Test 2018 (CLAT) held on May 13.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Mohan M Shantanagoudar agreed to put the petition for consideration on Wednesday, a day before the results of the test are scheduled to be announced.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Advocate Zoheb Hossain mentioned the petition filed by Akshat Aggarwal and others for urgent listing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The petitioners also sought a direction to conduct the examinations afresh.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Notably, on May 25, the top court had approved setting up of a panel headed by former Kerala High Court judge M R Hariharan Nair and comprising a professor of Cochin University, Santosh Kumar G, to look into grievances of the candidates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, that conducted the tests, has been asked to file a status report on Wednesday, after inviting complaints of the candidates by Sunday 7 pm and addressing the issues, including technical glitches that they faced.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A batch of petitions earlier filed by candidates in the top court, as well as various high courts, sought quashing of the CLAT 2018 examination besides a re-test claiming that several inconsistencies had cropped up during the test held on May 13 for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in premier National Law Universities.</p>