Delhi High Court To Hear CLAT 2025 Petitions On 7 April

On Monday, the Delhi High Court scheduled the hearing for April 7 on multiple petitions challenging the results of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025, conducted in December last year for admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law programs in National Law Universities.

These petitions, originally filed in various High Courts across the country, transferred to the Delhi High Court following a Supreme Court directive in response to a transfer request from the Consortium of National Law Universities.

Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela assured a swift resolution of the matter.

The Chief Justice remarked, “There is a lot of anxiety in students. Their board exams are going on. They are very young. Because of this uncertainty, it is causing a lot of stress in students…We want to pass an order just to facilitate how smoothly we can start.”

Procedural Directives For CLAT 2025 Case

The court requested a consolidated list of writ petitions related to CLAT UG and CLAT PG courses and directed the registry to compile all transferred cases.

It also instructed the counsel representing the Consortium of NLUs to submit a counter affidavit within two weeks.

Additionally, the court asked all parties to prepare two separate convenience compilations containing relevant documents and judicial references.

The court noted, “We also direct the Registry to serve copy of the writ petitions on the counsel representing the consortium of NLUs. The Registry must serve a copy of the writ petitions to the CLAT Consortium within three days. We also direct that in case any other writ petition is received, the copy shall also be served by the Registry upon the counsel for the Clat Consortium within two days from the date it is received. List on April 07.”

The petitions were previously pending in the High Courts of Delhi, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab & Haryana.

Initially, the Supreme Court had considered transferring the cases to the Punjab and Haryana High Court since the first petition originated there.

In December 2024, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court found discrepancies in two answers of the CLAT-UG 2025 exam and directed the Consortium to revise results for affected petitioners.

When the Consortium challenged this decision, the division bench observed that there appeared to be no apparent flaw in the single-judge ruling.

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