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New Indian Express
2 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Award marks on two disputed PG admission question, Delhi HC directs CLAT consortium
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to award marks to candidates for two disputed questions in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 for postgraduate (PG) students. A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela ruled in favour of the candidates on two out of the three questions that had been challenged before the court. One of the questions under dispute concerned a supposed extract from the Supreme Court's judgment in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board v A Rajappa and Ors. The court noted that this was not an actual extract from the judgment, but rather material taken from a commentary. 'It is not disputed that the candidates who had appeared in the examination were not previously provided with any list of judgments that they were to be ready with. That apart, it is not disputed that the passage (V) is not an extract from the judgment... it would be unreasonable to expect candidates to look for any answer beyond what is provided in the passage itself. Thus, the answer in option 'B' is incorrect and option 'C' is the correct answer. Resultantly, the Consortium shall accord marks to the candidates accordingly,' the court held. The bench also rejected the Consortium's position on a jurisprudence question regarding the source of the statement: 'Right is an interest which is to be recognised, protected and enforced by law.' The petitioners had also urged the Court to examine the Rs 1,000 fee imposed per objection to the CLAT PG provisional answer key, arguing it was excessive. While acknowledging that the fee appeared high compared to similar national-level exams, the court recognised the Consortium's argument that the charge was intended to deter frivolous objections. 'There has to be a fine balance which needs to be resolved between two sets of genuine grievances,' the court observed.
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
CLAT-PG 2025 answer key row: Delhi HC orders revised results soon
The Delhi high court on Friday granted relief to postgraduate (PG) candidates of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) over alleged errors in the answer keys released by the National Law Universities (consortium), and directed the consortium to expeditiously declare revised results of this year's courses. Dealing with a batch of pleas challenging the CLAT PG results – declared on December 7 – a bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela rejected the answers of two out of the three disputed questions released by the consortium and upheld the answer of one. To be sure, initially the three pleas filed by the candidates challenged eight questions but the consortium, in its meeting held in April, withdrew four. However, pursuant to court reserving the verdict, the consortium informed the high court about withdrawing another question after the candidate's lawyer pointed out that the correct option published in the question paper distributed to candidates was different from the option given in the master booklet made by the consortium. With this withdrawal, the court only had to adjudicate on three disputed questions. In its ruling, though the court refused to quash the levy of ₹1,000 fee for raising objection to the answer key, it directed the consortium to consider revising the fees in the future examination and asked it to place the matter before its grievance redressal committee headed by former judge and National Judicial Academy director G Raghuram. 'There has to be a fine balance which needs to be resolved between two sets of, what appears to be, genuine grievances. On one hand, while comparing the fee charged for objected questions by other organisations/institutions of national level with that charged by the consortium appears to be excessive and disproportionate, while appreciating the concerns of the consortium which too does not appear to be fanciful or imaginative, rather appears to be a measure which may be required in order to keep frivolous individuals and more so, the coaching institutes at bay. It would also be relevant to note that the time and efforts spent and made by the subject matter experts or the oversight review committee and the consortium as a whole in resolving these objections, in case they are in large number, frivolous, may entail huge, unnecessary and avoidable delay and/or protraction of the admission process, affecting or impacting the academic schedule too,' the court order read. It added, 'Notwithstanding the above observations, and keeping in mind that most of the candidates have already paid such fees, quashing such levy at this point in time may entail obstacles which may be unnecessary and may result in litigations which are not required. However, we expect that the aforesaid observations would be sufficient for the Consortium to take heed of and take appropriate steps to avoid such excessive fee in the next examinations, scheduled for the following years.' The petitions came up for hearing before the high court after the Supreme Court transferred various pleas challenging UG and PG CLAT results, declared on December 7, before multiple high courts, including the Delhi HC. To avoid conflicting rulings, a bench led by former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan on February 6 transferred pleas pending before various HCs, including those of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Calcutta, Bombay, Punjab & Haryana, to Delhi. On April 23, the Delhi HC bench led by chief justice DK Upadhyay directed the NLU consortium to publish within four weeks the revised UG results by updating the mark sheet and re-notifying the final list of selected candidates, which was then stayed by the Supreme Court on April 30. On May 7, the Supreme Court pulled up the consortium for setting questions in the most 'casual manner', and directed changes in the marking pattern of six questions. The bench noted that in some questions, the answer key issued by the consortium was contrary to past Supreme Court judgments and in one question, the answer required students to make calculations that could not be expected in an objective test on legal reasoning. Following the Supreme Court's order, the consortium on May 17 modified the final answer key by withdrawing five questions in Logical Reasoning and two questions in Quantitative Techniques. 'Accordingly, the evaluation of candidates for the CLAT 2025 UG shall be out of 113 marks instead of the originally announced 120 marks,' the notification stated. The registration for the counselling commenced from May 17. The high court's ruling, will have a significant impact on more than 10,000 students who had appeared for the CLAT PG examination and also fast track the admissions, the process of which was halted in light of the petitions. The counselling was initially scheduled to begin in December.
Indian Express
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
CLAT 2025 Hearing: Delhi HC directs NLUs to revise CLAT UG results; fresh merit list in four weeks
CLAT 2025 Hearing: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the marksheets and republish the final list of selected candidates of CLAT UG-2025 within four weeks. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela accepted certain objections of the candidates while rejecting some of them. The judgement came on a batch of petitions pointing out certain errors in the common law admission test (CLAT) UG-2025 questionnaire. A detailed order is awaited. The court on April 9 concluded hearing the lawyers for petitioner aspirants, who appeared in the exam in December 2024, and Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs) and reserved its order. The court had heard arguments on the questions which are under challenge in the petitions. It is yet to hear the petitions which have challenged certain questions in CLAT PG- 2025. CLAT determines admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in national law universities in the country. Multiple pleas were filed in different high courts alleging several questions in the exam were wrong. On February 6, the Supreme Court transferred all the petitions over the issue to the Delhi High Court for a 'consistent adjudication'. The top court passed the direction on the transfer petitions of CNLUs. The CLAT, 2025 for admissions in five-year LLB courses in NLUs was held on December 1 and results were declared on December 7, 2024.
The Hindu
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
CLAT UG-2025: Delhi High Court asks National Law Universities consortium to revise marksheets, republish result
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the marksheets and republish the final list of selected candidates of CLAT UG-2025 within four weeks. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela accepted certain objections of the candidates while rejecting some of them. The judgement came on a batch of petitions pointing out certain errors in the common law admission test (CLAT) UG-2025 questionnaire. A detailed order is awaited. The court on April 9 concluded hearing the lawyers for petitioner aspirants, who appeared in the exam in December 2024, and Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs) and reserved its order. The court had heard arguments on the questions which are under challenge in the petitions. It is yet to hear the petitions which have challenged certain questions in CLAT PG- 2025. CLAT determines admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in national law universities in the country. Multiple pleas were filed in different high courts alleging several questions in the exam were wrong. On February 6, the Supreme Court transferred all the petitions over the issue to the Delhi High Court for a "consistent adjudication". The top court passed the direction on the transfer petitions of CNLUs. The CLAT, 2025 for admissions in five-year LLB courses in NLUs was held on December 1 and results were declared on December 7, 2024.
