CLAT 2025 LIVE: Delhi High Court reserves UG verdict, PG hearing on April 21

CLAT 2025 Hearing: The Delhi High Court has reserved its verdict in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 undergraduate (UG) case. The hearing on CLAT postgraduate (PG) 2025 petitions will begin on April 21. A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela heard the allegations of errors in the CLAT question paper and answer key today.

During the last hearing, the court had suggested the Consortium of NLUs to pick "better paper setters in the future" to avoid such errors. The CLAT 2025 entrance exam was conducted on December 1 and the results were declared on December 7.

The court said that at least one question in the CLAT UG exam should be scrapped as the senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao for the Consortium also suggested withdrawing the questions due to flawed formulation. The bench also scrutinized specific questions, including a logical verbal reasoning question about homeless people, where subject experts had split opinions.

CLAT 2025 court hearings

The Supreme Court transferred the CLAT 2025 pleas to a division bench of Delhi HC to avoid conflicting judgments. The top court had initially suggested transferring CLAT 2025 case to Punjab and Haryana High Court while pointing out that the first petition against the CLAT 2025 answer key was filed in that very HC. On the other hand, the CLAT consortium had demanded that the cases should be either consolidated in the SC or in a specific HC.

The consortium had sought transfer of pleas against CLAT result 2025, from various high courts to the apex court. An aspirant had also informed a Delhi HC division bench that several petitions were pending in different high courts and the transfer pleas would be moved before the top court.

Both the consortium and aspirants were against the Delhi HC order, with the consortium arguing that the single-judge bench should not have interfered in the case of CLAT UG answer key prepared by experts.

CLAT 2025 result revision

A two-judge bench refused to intervene in the single-judge order and to pass an interim order. The Delhi HC prima facie found no error in the view taken by the single judge with respect to the two questions challenged in the court, and asked the consortium to declare the CLAT results in terms of the single judge’s verdict.

On December 20 last year, a Delhi High Court directed the consortium to revise the result of CLAT 2025 over alleged errors in the CLAT UG 2025 answer key. The single judge bench found the answers to two questions in the entrance test wrong. The plea had challenged the CLAT answer key 2025 while seeking a direction to declare correct answers to certain questions.

The CLAT 2025 exam was held on December 1 for admissions to five-year LLB courses in NLUs and CLAT 2025 result was declared on December 7.