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Allowing the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs), the bench said all the petitions would be taken up by a Delhi High Court division bench on March 3.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan passed the order (File Photo)
The Supreme Court on Thursday transferred all the petitions against the CLAT results 2025 from various high courts to the Delhi High Court. “The matters relating to the common law admission tests, PG and UG, will be transferred to a division bench of the Delhi High Court where a letter patent appeal is pending. The records are to be transferred expeditiously within seven days,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan ordered, reported PTI.
While allowing the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs), the bench said all the petitions would be taken up by a Delhi High Court division bench on March 3. The CJI said transferring all petitions to a single high court would ensure an expedited and consistent adjudication, the news agency reported.
The SC bench also passed an omnibus direction to transfer any other pending case in any other high court to the Delhi High Court. “We are also inclined to pass an omnibus order that in case of any other high court or in any other matter, the respondent/CNLUs is entitled to file a copy of this order before the high court for transfer of case to the Delhi High Court,” the bench said. It directed the registrars of Bombay, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Calcutta high courts to transfer the judicial records of the pending cases to the Delhi High Court.
Multiple pleas were filed in different high courts against the CLAT 2025 result alleging errors in many questions.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta who represented the CNLUs agreed with the transfer of the cases but suggested the Karnataka High Court to hear the cases. However, several students demanded the cases be transferred to the Delhi HC stating it had passed a favourable order for some petitioners by identifying two errors in the CLAT UG 2025 question paper and directed the consortium to revise their results.
On December 20, 2024, a Delhi HC single judge directed the consortium to revise the result after identifying two errors in Set A of the question paper. “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,” Justice Jyoti Singh had said.
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. It directed the consortium to declare the results in terms of the judge’s decision.
The CLAT 2025 was held on December 1 and results were declared on December 7, 2024.
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