Shreya Gupta
On 7th April 2025, the Delhi High Court remarked that at least one question in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 undergraduate (UG) paper should be scrapped. A bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela made this observation.
While reviewing the UG question paper, the Bench noted that the paper did not provide any reference for a passage but still expected students to answer questions based on it. The Court questioned whether students were reasonably expected to know the content of the passage. Representing the Consortium of National Law Universities, which conducts the CLAT, Senior Advocate Rajshekhar Rao informed the Court that an expert committee reviewing the exam had suggested the withdrawal of one problematic question. The Court indicated its intention to decide the cases related to the UG exam before the upcoming vacation and scheduled further proceedings for 8th April 2025.
The matter stems from a plea initially filed by a 17-year-old CLAT candidate, Aditya Singh, which was partly allowed by single-judge Justice Jyoti Singh on 20th December 2024, who acknowledged certain errors in the UG paper. This ruling was subsequently challenged by the Consortium before a division bench, arguing that the single judge had overstepped by assuming the role of an expert. Aditya Singh also filed an appeal before the division bench, seeking further revision of his results.
As multiple High Courts were simultaneously hearing similar petitions challenging the CLAT results, the Consortium approached the Supreme Court seeking a transfer of all such cases to a single forum. Responding to this concern, the Supreme Court on 6th February 2025 ordered the transfer of all CLAT-related cases to the Delhi High Court.
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