CLAT UG 2025: Delhi High Court Accepts Few Objections To Answer Key, Directs Consortium Of NLUs To Revise Merit List

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to republish and renotify within four weeks the final list of selected candidates who gave the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) UG examination 2025.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela decided a batch of petitions challenging the results of the CLAT UG examination 2025, held in December last year for admissions to undergraduate law course in various National Law Universities.

“….we direct the respondent/Consortium to revise the marksheet and to re- publish/renotify the final list of selected candidates within 04 weeks from date,” the.m Court said.

This was after the Bench found error in four questions and said that benefit be given to the candidates. However, it found no error regarding the answers of 12 questions.

The Bench clarified that the Consortium shall apply the Court's  evaluation to each of the appellant and petitioners candidates, the candidates who may have attempted certain questions as also all those in respect of whom certain benefits can be granted. 

Judgment in the pleas was reserved on April 09. Another batch challenging the results of CLAT PG 2025 examination is pending consideration before the bench.

The pleas were filed in various High Courts across the country and were transferred by the Supreme Court to the Delhi High Court. The transfer petition was filed by the Consortium of National Law Universities.

The petitions were pending in the High Courts of Delhi, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab & Haryana against the results of the CLAT-2025 test held in December 2024.

Previously, the Supreme Court had expressed inclination to transfer the matters to the Punjab and Haryana High Court as the first petition was filed there.

In December 2024, a single judge of the Delhi High Court found that two answers of the CLAT-UG 2025 exam were wrong and asked the Consortium to revise the results of the petitioners. When the Consortium appealed against the single bench's decision, the division bench remarked that they prima facie did not find any error in the single bench's decision.

Case : CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITIES VS. MASTER ADITYA SINGH, MINOR and other connected matters

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 462

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