The Kerala High Court has held that the prescription of having appeared in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) post-graduate programmes as a qualification for applying to the post of Assistant Law Officer in the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) violates the right of citizens to equality of opportunity in public employment guaranteed by Article 16 of the Constitution.
Justice V.G. Arun made the observation recently while allowing a writ petition by Aishwarya Mohan from Thrissur challenging the qualification prescribed by the NTPC to the post of Assistant Law Officers
The petitioner contended that the notification imposed the precondition that the candidates should have appeared for the CLAT 2021 PG programme conducted by the Consortium of National Law Universities, and that the selection would be based on the marks secured in CLAT 2021 militated against the fundamental right of the petitioner.
