CLAT UG 2025: Petitioner Before Delhi HC To Move Supreme Court For Case Transfer – News18

Last Updated:January 07, 2025, 15:40 IST

CLAT UG Result 2025: The Delhi High Court identified two errors in Set A of the question paper.

The candidate challenging the CLAT UG 2025 results will now approach the Supreme Court to request a transfer of the cases. The petitioner informed the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that he plans to move to the Supreme Court, as multiple high courts are handling similar cases, as reported by the Bar and Bench.

The petitioner, a 17-year-old candidate, Aditya Singh, who had appeared for the CLAT 2025 UG exam told a Bench of acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela that since similar matters are pending before other High Courts as well, he would ask the Supreme Court to transfer all such cases to the top court. On Singh’s request, the High Court also adjourned the matter until January 30.

On December 20, Justice Jyoti Singh partly allowed the plea filed by Singh regarding certain errors alleged in the paper for undergraduate admissions to National Law Universities (NLUs). The single-judge directed the revision of CLAT UG 2025 merit after identifying two errors in the answer key.

The Delhi High Court identified two errors in Set A of the question paper. This includes questions 14 and 100, reported by Bar and Bench. “The errors in question Nos.14 and 100 are demonstrably clear and shutting a blind eye to the same would be an injustice to the petitioner albeit this Court is conscious of the fact that it may impact the result of other candidates,” the court stated.

In his plea, the candidate claimed errors in five questions and argued that, since the single-judge had ordered corrections for only two, the remaining three should also be corrected due to “blatant mistakes.”

When the matter was heard by the Division Bench on December 24, it declined to stay the single judge’s order, citing no prima facie error in the findings. The Bench also clarified that the NLU Consortium could proceed with declaring the results as per the single-judge’s directive.

Meanwhile, the Consortium of National Law Universities has decided to challenge the Delhi HC ruling in the Supreme Court, arguing that the single-judge bench should not have intervened in the CLAT UG answer key prepared by experts.