CLAT 2025 Result: What Delhi High Court said about result revision, counselling dates?

The court on Monday, expressed its intention to conclude the hearing on the petitions as soon as possible so that the results could be declared. It emphasized the urgency in matters related to the undergraduate examinations, while stating that petitions concerning the postgraduate course would be heard separately.

In a previous hearing, the court had advised the Consortium of NLUs to engage “better paper setters in the future” to avoid such mistakes. The CLAT 2025 exam took place on December 1, with results announced on December 7. The court stated that at least one question in the CLAT UG exam should be scrapped, as senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao, representing the Consortium, also proposed withdrawing the question due to its flawed formulation. The bench reviewed specific questions, including a logical verbal reasoning item about homeless people, which drew divided opinions from subject experts.

The Supreme Court had earlier transferred all CLAT 2025-related pleas to a division bench of the Delhi High Court to prevent conflicting judgments. Although the top court initially suggested transferring the case to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, where the first petition was filed, the Consortium requested that the cases be either consolidated in the Supreme Court or assigned to a single High Court. An aspirant had informed the Delhi HC that multiple petitions were pending in different high courts and that transfer requests would be filed before the apex court.

Both the Consortium and the aspirants opposed the Delhi HC order. The Consortium argued that the single-judge bench should not have interfered with the CLAT UG answer key, which had been prepared by experts. However, a two-judge bench refused to overturn the single-judge order or issue an interim relief. The Delhi HC found no prima facie error in the single judge’s view regarding the two disputed questions and directed the Consortium to declare the CLAT results as per the single judge’s ruling.

On December 20, 2024, the Delhi High Court had ordered the Consortium to revise the CLAT 2025 result due to alleged errors in the answer key. The single-judge bench determined that the answers to two questions were incorrect. The plea had sought a correction in the CLAT 2025 answer key and a direction to declare the correct answers. The CLAT 2025 exam was conducted on December 1 for admission to five-year LLB programs in NLUs, with the result declared on December 7.