Supreme Court Stays Delhi HC Direction To Revise CLAT-UG 2025 Merit List

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 30) stayed the judgment of the Delhi High Court, which directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to revise the merit list of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 for Undergraduate (UG) admissions due to certain mistakes in the questions.

A bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih passed the interim order while issuing notice on a Special Leave Petition filed by a candidate against the judgment delivered by a division bench of the High Court on April 23.

The High Court had found errors in four questions in sets B, C and D question papers and directed that marks be given for these questions to the candidates who attempted the said sets. The CLAT consortium was directed to revise the merit list within a period of four weeks. The High Court however did not grant this benefit to the candidates who attempted the A set, saying that this set did not have errors.

The SLP before the Supreme Court was filed by a candidate, who attempted the A set and secured the All India Rank 22. She contended that the High Court's direction put the candidates who received the A Set Question Paper at a disadvantage when compared to the students who received the B, C and D sets. The High Court's direction therefore, robbed the petitioner of a level playing field, it was contended.

The exam held on December 1, 2024, ran into controversies due to complaints regarding questions.  In December 2024, a single judge of the Delhi High Court found that two answers of the CLAT-UG 2025 exam were wrong and asked the Consortium to revise the results of the petitioners. The Consortium appealed to the division bench against the Judgment. On April 23, 2025, a division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela decided the Consortium's appeal.

In February, the Supreme Court had transferred to the Delhi High Court petitions filed in other High Courts challenging the CLAT 2025 results.

Senior Advocates  KK Venugoal, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Deepak Nargolkar and Soumik Ghoshal AOR appeared for the petitioner in the Supreme Court.

Update :

After the Supreme Court passed the stay order, the counsel on behalf of the NLU Consortium mentioned the matter at 1 PM before the bench, requesting an urgent hearing, saying that only 6 petitioners are affected. The bench directed the posting of the matter on Monday. The bench also directed the Consortium to publish on its official website that a petition challenging the High Court's order has been filed before the Supreme Court.

Case : SIDDHI SANDEEP LADDA vs CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITIES AND ANR | Diary No. 22324-2025

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