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The Supreme Court on Thursday (February 6, 2025) transferred petitions challenging Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 results, pending in various High Courts, to a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court.
The Supreme Court ordered listing of all pleas challenging exam results before Delhi HC Division Bench on March 3.
The Supreme Court also asked all High Courts where petitions are pending against the exam results to send them to Delhi HC within 7 days.
The CLAT 2025, conducted on December 1, 2024, determines admissions to undergraduate law courses in National Law Universities in the country and pleas were filed in different high courts alleging several questions in the exam were wrong.
Earlier on January 15, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar issued notices on transfer petitions filed by the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs), seeking to consolidate multiple cases pending in the high courts.
On December 20, 2024, a Delhi High Court single Judge directed the consortium to revise the result of CLAT-2025 over errors in the answer key. The single Judge’s verdict, which came on the plea of a CLAT aspirant, ruled the answers to two questions in the entrance test were wrong. The plea had challenged the answer key published by the consortium on December 7, 2024 while seeking a direction to declare correct answers to certain questions. The single Judge said the errors were “demonstrably clear” and “shutting a blind eye to them” would amount to injustice. While the aspirant challenged the single Judge’s order which refused his prayer over the other two questions, the consortium moved against the single Judge’s decision.
On December 24, 2024, a Division Bench hearing the challenges refused to pass any interim order after prima facie finding no error with the single Judge’s order over the two questions and said the consortium was free to declare the results in terms of the Judge’s decision.
(With inputs from PTI)
Published – February 06, 2025 11:19 am IST
