In a significant development concerning this year’s Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for undergraduate courses, the Delhi High Court has ordered the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to revise the results following the identification of errors in four questions from the examination.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela directed the Consortium to revise the marksheets of all affected candidates and renotify the final list of selected candidates within four weeks.
“In view of the aforesaid detailed analysis and conclusions, we direct the respondent/Consortium to revise the marksheet and to republish/renotify the final list of selected candidates within 04 weeks from date,” the Court said in its judgment.
ERRORS IDENTIFIED IN CLAT UG 2025
The High Court listed the following questions from the CLAT UG 2025 master question booklet as erroneous:
- Question 5: The official answer key listed an incorrect option. The Court held that option (c) is the correct answer. All candidates who marked this option will be awarded marks.
- Question 77: Found to be out of syllabus. The question is to be excluded entirely. Candidates who marked the correct answer will lose the mark; those who marked the wrong answer will get 0.25 marks back due to negative marking reversal.
- Question 115: The original answer key incorrectly stated option (a) as correct. The Court determined option (d) – “None of these” is correct. All candidates who attempted this question will receive full marks.
- Question 116: Errors affected Sets B, C, and D. Candidates who attempted these sets will be awarded marks. No change for Set A, which did not contain the error.
QUESTIONS WITH NO CHANGE
The Court dismissed pleas seeking changes to answers for questions 14, 37, 49, 56, 78, 79, 80, 81, 88, 91, 93, and 97, maintaining the original answer key for these.
LEGAL BACKGROUND
The decision stems from a batch of petitions originally filed in multiple High Courts, later consolidated by the Supreme Court and transferred to the Delhi High Court. A single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court had earlier partially allowed a plea by 17-year-old candidate Aditya Singh, which was then challenged by both the candidate and the Consortium.
The Court clarified that the revised evaluation will apply to all petitioners, appellants, and other candidates affected by the identified discrepancies.
LEGAL REPRESENTATION
The matter saw representation from several advocates:
- Shivraj Sharma: Advocates Niyati Kohli, Rishab Parakh, Prathambir Agarwal
- Aditya Singh: Advocates Dhanesh Relan, Arjeet Gaur, Naveen Malik, Suryansh Jamwal, Sakshi Arora
- Harshita: Advocates T Archana, Archit Mishra, Digvijay
- Tiambak Eashwar: Advocate T Archana
- Prabhas Kumar: Advocates Yash Dadriwal, Amol Jagtap
- Hardik Garg & Harshit Garg: Senior Advocate Ajay Vohra, Advocates Aniket D Agrawal, Ram Krishna Rao
- A Vaishnavi: Advocates Uddyam Mukherjee, Rohit Sinha, Swapnil Pattanayak, Agnibha Chatterjee
- Consortium of NLUs: Senior Advocate Rajshekhar Rao, Advocates Arun Sri Kumar, Shubhansh Thakur, Wamic Wasim
WHAT’S NEXT?
The Consortium has four weeks to revise and republish the final list of CLAT UG 2025 selected candidates. Petitions related to CLAT PG 2025 are still pending and being considered separately by the same bench.
