Shreya Gupta
On Thursday, January 15, 2025, Supreme Court transferred all petitions filed in various High Courts challenging the results of the Common Law Admission Test-2025 (CLAT-2025) to the Delhi High Court. The exam was conducted in December 2024 for admissions to undergraduate and postgraduate law courses in National Law Universities. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, and Justice KV Viswanathan issued this order in response to a transfer petition filed by the Consortium of National Law Universities.
The Court directed that all case records be transferred from other High Courts to the Delhi High Court within seven days. Specifically, the bench ordered that all matters related to CLAT-UG and CLAT-PG be transferred to the division bench of the Delhi High Court where cases LPA 1250/2024 and LPA 1251/2024 were already pending. The Court also issued an omnibus direction allowing the Consortium of Universities to submit a copy of the Supreme Court’s order to any other High Court handling similar cases to ensure that such cases are also transferred to the Delhi High Court.
Currently, petitions against the CLAT-2025 results are pending before the High Courts of Delhi, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab & Haryana. Previously, the Supreme Court had considered transferring the cases to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as the first petition regarding the CLAT-2025 results had been filed there. In December 2024, a single judge of the Delhi High Court ruled that two answers in the CLAT-UG 2025 exam were incorrect and directed the Consortium to revise the petitioners’ results. However, when the Consortium appealed this decision, the division bench of the Delhi High Court stated that it did not prima facie find any errors in the single bench’s ruling.
Case Title: Consortium Of National Law Universities v. Master Aditya Singh (MINOR)
Case Number: TP(c) 000046 – 000054 / 2025
Bench: Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, and Justice KV Viswanathan