Delhi HC grants partial relief to students in CLAT-PG answer key dispute
While disposing of three petitions by students seeking rectification of alleged errors in the answer key, the court ruled in favour of the students in two questions and upheld the Consortium of National Law Universities' (NLUs) stance on a third. It directed the Consortium to revise the scoring accordingly and declare the results.
The students had also challenged the fee for raising objections to the provisional answer key — ₹1,000 per question — terming it excessive, and sought a direction to the Consortium to reconsider it.
The court observed that there should be a 'fine balance' between the concerns of the candidates and the institutions, and said that its observation should be sufficient for the Consortium to take appropriate steps to 'avoid such excessive fee in the next examinations'.
CLAT determines admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in National Law Universities in the country. CLAT-PG 2025 was held on December 1, 2024.
Multiple pleas were filed in different High Courts alleging several questions in the exam were wrong. On February 6, the Supreme Court transferred all the petitions over the issue to the Delhi High Court for a 'consistent adjudication'.
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