30-04-2025
Supreme Court halts Delhi High Court order on law entrance exam result revision
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court's April 23 order directing a revision of CLAT UG 2025 (Common Law Admission Test – Undergraduate) results. The court has stayed the High Court's decision and sought responses from the consortium and others within a Supreme Court also directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the mark sheets and republish the final list of selected candidates of CLAT UG-2025 within four bench comprising Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih issued notices to the consortium and other parties involved on the plea, seeking their replies within a week.
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), 2025, for admissions to five-year LLB courses in national law universities, was held on December 1, 2024, and results were declared on December 7. CLAT determines admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in national law universities in the candidates had raised concerns over allegedly incorrect questions and on December 20, 2024, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court had ruled two answer choices incorrect and directed result revisions. The consortium and affected aspirants both appealed the ruling. While the Delhi High Court had declined interim relief in December, it eventually instructed a full revision of mark the Supreme Court now intervening, the matter is set for further hearing next week. The Delhi High Court is yet to hear challenges related to CLAT PG February 6, the Supreme Court transferred all petitions to the Delhi High Court for a "consistent adjudication". The top court passed the direction on the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law its April 23 order, a division bench of the high court accepted certain objections of the candidates while rejecting some of them."We direct the respondent/consortium to revise the mark sheet and to republish/renotify the final list of selected candidates within four weeks from the date," the high court clarified that the consortium should apply the evaluation to each appellant and petitioner and the candidates who might have attempted certain questions under the court's consortium, the high court said, should also apply the evaluation to all the candidates to whom certain benefits could be granted in view of the analysis. The high court disposed of the petitions and appeals pointing out certain errors in the CLAT UG-2025 questionnaire. With inputs from PTI
