Hearing on petition related to CLAT-OG in Supreme Court: Delhi High Court’s decision was challenged; HC had asked to release revised results

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On Wednesday (April 30), the Supreme Court stayed the High Court’s order.

The Supreme Court will hear a petition related to CLAT UG 2025 today. The petitioner has filed a petition in the SC that he is suffering from the Delhi High Court’s decision to revisit the marksheets.

The Delhi High Court on 23 April ordered the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the CLAT UG-2025 marksheets and publish a list of final candidates again within four weeks.

The Supreme Court stayed on Wednesday (30 April) on the order of the High Court. The decision was given by a bench of Justice BR Gawai and Augustine George Christ. The bench issued a notice to the Consortium and others and said- Share the information filed in the court on its website before the next hearing.

The CLAT 2025 exam took place on 1 December last year and its result was released on 7 December. After this, cases were registered in different coats, which said that many wrong questions were asked in the exam. All these cases were transferred to the Delhi High Court on 6 December for hearing.

The High Court had considered a mistake in 2 questions

The Delhi High Court, while hearing the petition of Aditya Singh, a candidate, has ordered mistakes in 2 questions and ordered to improve the result. The High Court has ordered the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) to release new results by improving the question number 14 and 100 of the set-A.

‘Two questions clearly wrong, cannot do injustice by blindly blindly’: High Court

CLAT took place on 1 December 2024. The final answer-key was to be released on December 9 and the result on December 10, but the Consortium declared the final answer-key and the result simultaneously on the night of 7 December without any prior notice. Complaints of mistakes were also received in the result, but counseling was started without settling them.

Pankaj Vivek, father of Aditya Singh, who gave CLAT, challenged the result by filing a petition in the Delhi High Court. He demanded the cancellation of the final answer key and stop counseling. On this, the High Court judge Jyoti Singh ruled the petition as justified. He has ordered to correct the wrong answers of question numbers 14 and 100 of set-A of paper and only then to release new results.

High Court said- clear mistakes in question number 14 and 100

In its judgment, the court said, ‘Question number 14 and 100 have clear mistakes. It would be an injustice to the blindfolding, the petitioner. The court also said that it knows that the results of the rest of the candidates may also be affected. The court said, ‘All those candidates who had given the answer C to the 14th question of set A, because the court and the expert committee have considered C as the correct answer. At the same time, according to the advice of the Expert Committee on question number 100, a new result should be prepared by removing the question paper.

According to CLAT expert Sagar Joshi, after this decision, not only the results but the rank of many students will change.

CLAT exam took place on 1 December

Registrations started from CNLU for Clat 2025 from 15 July 2024. Its admit card was issued on November 15, 2024. On 1 December 2024, an offline exam took place in the same shift from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. CLAT exams every year for admission in graduation and post graduation programs at 24 National Law University across the country.

Educational qualification for CLAT UG

  • General category: Minimum 45% marks in 12th
  • SC/ST/PWD category: Minimum 40% in 12th

Students who attend the 12th exam in 2025 are also eligible for this.

Educational qualification for CLAT PG

  • General category: Minimum 50% marks in LLB
  • SC/ST/PWD category: Minimum 45%marks in LLB

Students of LLB’s last year i.e. April-May are also eligible for this.

CLAT UG exam pattern Clat UG consists of 150 number MCQ i.e. multi-optional questions. The candidate gets 1 point for the right answer, while 0.25 marks are cut for wrong answerrs. The exam is a total of 2 hours.

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