In its order, the Court directed the authorities responsible for conducting the exam to make corrections in the marksheets and publish a new final list of selected candidates.
New Delhi: Today, 23rd April, the Delhi High Court instructed the Consortium of National Law Universities to correct the marksheets and release a revised final list of selected candidates for CLAT UG 2025 within four weeks.
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A bench led by Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela accepted some of the objections raised by the candidates, while dismissing others.
In its order, the Court directed the authorities responsible for conducting the exam to make corrections in the marksheets and publish a new final list of selected candidates.
The court said: “We order the respondent group to correct the marksheets and publish a new final list of selected candidates within six weeks.”
However, the court also made it clear that not all objections were accepted. Some were agreed to, while others were not.
According to the Court, “The Court has agreed with some of the candidates’ objections and rejected others.”
Moreover, the court stated that only those candidates who had submitted their objections within the officially allowed time would be considered.
Those who raised objections after the deadline will not be entertained. “Also, candidates who did not raise their objections during the allowed time cannot have their objections considered now.”
The judges informed that they had gone through every issue raised in the case very carefully and provided detailed reasoning in their judgment.
The Court said: “The Court said it has carefully examined each issue in detail in the judgment, which will be uploaded soon.”
Initially, the Court gave the authorities six weeks to complete the corrections and release the new merit list. But later, this time period was reduced to four weeks after the Court was informed about certain developments.
“After it was brought to the Court’s attention, the time period of six weeks has been reduced to four weeks.”
Erroneous Questions and Court Directions Regarding CLAT UG 2025:
- Question No. 5 (Master Booklet): The answer key incorrectly listed the correct option. Option (c) is the correct answer. All candidates who selected option (c) will be awarded marks.
- Question No. 77 (Master Booklet): This question is deemed out of syllabus and has been withdrawn. Candidates who answered correctly will not receive marks, while those who selected incorrect answers will be awarded 0.25 marks to compensate for the negative marking.
- Question No. 115 (Master Booklet): The provisional answer key listed option (a) “Rs. 204 approx” as correct, which has now been found to be incorrect. The correct answer is option (d) “None of these.” All candidates who attempted this question will be given full marks.
- Question No. 116 (Master Booklet): Candidates who appeared with Sets B, C, and D will be awarded the marks as indicated for this question. Since there was no error in Set A, the Court has decided not to alter the marks of candidates who answered it correctly in that set.
The Court declined to make any changes regarding the answers to Questions 14, 37, 49, 56, 78, 79, 80, 81, 88, 91, 93, and 97 of the master booklet.
On April 9, the court finished hearing arguments from the lawyers representing the students who gave the CLAT UG 2025 in December 2024. It also heard the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs), the body that conducts CLAT, before reserving its order.
These petitions mainly challenge certain questions in the CLAT UG 2025 paper. The court, however, is yet to hear separate petitions regarding errors in the CLAT PG 2025 paper.
CLAT is an important national-level entrance exam for admission to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law courses in India’s National Law Universities.
Petitions challenging various questions in the exam were earlier filed in different high courts. But on February 6, 2025, the Supreme Court transferred all these cases to the Delhi High Court so that there could be a “consistent adjudication“ of the issue. This was done on transfer petitions filed by the Consortium of NLUs.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court noted that “suspense and anxiety” among students was not good, and it wanted to complete hearings quickly so that results could be declared soon.
The court added that there was more urgency in the UG-related petitions and that PG-related petitions would be taken up separately.
Several CLAT candidates had requested for the cases to be shifted to the Delhi High Court. One reason was that the High Court had earlier passed a favourable ruling for some candidates by finding errors in two questions and instructing the Consortium to revise their results.
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On December 20, 2024, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court directed the Consortium to revise the CLAT 2025 results due to mistakes in the answer key. This judgment came after a CLAT aspirant filed a petition challenging the answer key released on December 7, 2024.
In that verdict, the court said the answers to two questions were wrong and made strong observations:
“The errors were demonstrably clear”
“Shutting a blind eye would amount to injustice”
However, the court had declined to grant relief regarding two other questions challenged by the same aspirant. That aspirant later challenged the single judge’s ruling on those two questions, and at the same time, the Consortium approached the division bench against the judge’s direction to revise results based on the two incorrect questions.
On December 24, 2024, the division bench of the Delhi High Court refused to grant an interim stay. It said it prima facie found no error with the single judge’s decision and stated:
“The consortium was free to declare the results in terms of the judge’s decision”
The CLAT 2025 entrance test for five-year LLB courses was held on December 1, 2024, and the results were announced on December 7, 2024.
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