CLAT UG third allotment 2026 postponed after Allahabad HC orders revision of answer key, merit list

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has postponed the CLAT third allotment, scheduled to be declared on February 5, until further orders, following the Allahabad High Court directions to revise the UG merit list. A revised CLAT counselling schedule will be published shortly on the official website, consortiumofnlus.ac.in, soon.

In a judgment dated February 3, a single judge held that for question number 9 of CLAT UG booklet C, and its corresponding questions across other sets, both options B and D should be treated as correct.

The court has directed the Consortium to revise the CLAT UG scores and merit list 2026 accordingly, which was published on December 16, 2025.

However, the court also clarified that the revision should not disturb candidates who have already been allotted seats in round 1 and 2 of the CLAT UG counselling process.

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Following the court order, the Executive Committee of the Consortium has decided to file a Special Appeal before the division bench of the Allahabad High Court, challenging the single judge’s order.

It said it would continue to defend the CLAT UG final answer key notified earlier and seek to ensure that the answers remain unchanged for future rounds of counselling.

“The Consortium intends to take all legal steps to ensure that no seats allotted to students in rounds 1 and 2 of the counselling, which are already concluded, are impacted in any way. The Consortium also intends to reiterate its defence of the Final Answer Key, as previously notified, in its appeal - so as to ensure that the said key is maintained without any change for future rounds of counselling also,” it said.