CLAT 2025 Result Likely To Be Revised After Delhi HC Finds Errors In Answer Key – News18

Last Updated:December 22, 2024, 13:07 IST

CLAT 2025 Result: Justice Jyoti Singh upheld the petitioner’s claim and agreed with the Expert Committee’s assessment that option ‘C’ was the correct answer to question 14

The Delhi High Court has directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to revise the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) results 2025. The decision comes after a student filed a writ petition challenging the final answer key and sought a revision of his result.

The Delhi High Court identified two errors in Set A of the question paper. This includes questions 14 and 100, reported Bar and Bench. “The errors in question Nos.14 and 100 are demonstrably clear and shutting a blind eye to the same would be an injustice to the petitioner albeit this Court is conscious of the fact that it may impact the result of other candidates,” the court stated.

Justice Jyoti Singh upheld the petitioner’s claim and agreed with the Expert Committee’s assessment that option ‘C’ was the correct answer to question 14. Singh added that all candidates who selected option ‘C’ should be awarded full marks. The Delhi HC also pointed out that question 100 consists of errors and therefore is invalid.

The petitioner, a 17-year-old candidate, Aditya Singh, who had appeared for the CLAT 2025 UG exam also demanded corrections to the remaining contested questions, the report added. He claimed that due to the errors in the answer key, he lost marks which affected his admission to top institutes. The petitioner also demanded that the Consortium constitute an expert committee to consider the objections raised by him and re-evaluate his exam answers.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court had earlier warned against interference in academic matters. However, the Delhi High Court said that errors on the part of the exam authorities could compromise the fairness of results, the report stated. “Therefore, the law does not commend a total ‘hands off’ approach and in exceptional cases where questions are found to be demonstrably wrong, the resultant injustice to a candidate must be redressed and undone,” the Court said.