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CLAT CONTROVERSY

Common law admission test is conducted every year as an entrance exam for granting admission to prestigious National law universities of the country. CLAT is conducted every year by different law schools since the year 2008, because of the notification of the Government to conduct only one exam for all the national law universities. This year it was conducted by National law university Jodhpur (NLU J) and is hovered in a controversy because of it’s paper pattern. The students who have taken the exam this year accused the clat committee of Jodhpur of misrepresentation by providing wrong information and misguiding the candidates. Last year also WBNUJS Kolkata(who made the paper last year) was blamed for preparing a paper which could not have been completed on time by anyone and also for leaving answers with the questions in SET A and Set B marked and thereby discriminating with the students of other 2 sets. Even though clat 2011 paper was a disaster and spoiled the career of many ...

Individual rights vs. duties towards the society

Law is a framework having encapsulation of Rights and duties. It circumvent around protection of rights and its infringement. Rights and duties can complement each other, but when the situation in which only one can survive, arises then rights emerged as the sole guardian. Rights are legally protected (in the sense that any person violating the rights of others is guilty and punished under law) and recognised that is why special preference has been provided to some basic rights(right to life, right to profess any profession, right to religion etc) under the heading of Fundamental rights in Indian constitution. These rights are so authoritative that any law made in contravention of fundamental rights shall be declared void. Duties on the other hand are the do’s and don’ts and some rules and regulation which an ideal citizen should follow like stand straight during national anthem, respect elders etc, which if violated shall not be punished but if followed will help in setti...