Revise CLAT 2025 results, republish merit list in four weeks: Delhi High Court tells Consortium of NLUs

NEW DELHI: In a good news for law aspirants, the Delhi High Court has directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the CLAT 2025 results and republish the final list of selected candidates within four weeks. The HC was hearing petitions challenging the CLAT UG results 2025, demanding cancellation over alleged errors in CLAT UG answer key 2025.

A bench of Justices Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Rao Gedela accepted certain objections of the candidates while rejecting some of them.

During the last hearing, the top court reserved its verdict in the CLAT UG case. It had suggested the Consortium pick “better paper setters in the future” to avoid errors and remove at least one question due to flaws in formulation. The bench heard several petitions filed in various high courts including Delhi, Jharkhand, Calcutta, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab and Haryana, Rajasthan among others and scrutinised many questions challenged by the petitioners.

While taking up the petitions, the Delhi HC expressed its intention to complete the CLAT UG hearing at the earliest to allow the declaration of CLAT UG results 2025 and commencement of the admission process through CLAT 2025 counselling.

In February, the Supreme Court transferred all petitions challenging the CLAT 2025 results to a division bench of the HC. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan directed registrars of several high courts to transfer the judicial records of pending cases to the Delhi HC.

Errors in CLAT 2025 answer key

The apex court had suggested transferring the CLAT 2025 result revision cases to Punjab and Haryana High Court, highlighting that the first petition was filed in that court. Not only petitioners but the Consortium too wanted a transfer of pending cases to a specific HC or SC.

In December last year, a bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Gedela refused to intervene in a single-judge order directing the CNLUs to revise the CLAT 2025 result over errors in the answer key.

Delhi High Court verdict came on the plea of a CLAT 2025 aspirant and ruled the answer key for two questions in the entrance test were wrong. The plea challenged the CLAT 2025 answer key issued on December 7 and sought a direction for release of the correct answers to certain questions. The single judge remarked that the errors were "demonstrably clear" and "shutting a blind eye to them" would amount to injustice.