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Allowing the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs), the bench said all the petitions would be taken up by a Delhi High Court division bench on March 3.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan passed the order (File Photo)
The Supreme Court on Thursday transferred all the petitions against the CLAT results 2025 from various high courts to the Delhi High Court. “The matters relating to the common law admission tests, PG and UG, will be transferred to a division bench of the Delhi High Court where a letter patent appeal is pending. The records are to be transferred expeditiously within seven days,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan ordered, reported news agency PTI.
Allowing the transfer petitions of the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs), the bench said all the petitions would be taken up by a Delhi High Court division bench on March 3. The CJI said transferring all petitions to a single high court would ensure an expedited and consistent adjudication.
The bench also passed an omnibus direction to transfer any other pending case in any other high court to the Delhi High Court. “We are also inclined to pass an omnibus order that in case of any other high court or in any other matter, the respondent/CNLUs is entitled to file a copy of this order before the high court for transfer of case to the Delhi High Court,” said the bench.
The top court directed registrars of high courts, including Bombay, Karnataka, Punjab and Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Calcutta, to transfer the judicial records of the pending cases to the Delhi High Court.
Multiple pleas were filed in different high courts against the CLAT 2025 result alleging several questions in the exam were wrong. Petitions were also filed challenging the CLAT results for admissions in PG courses.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta represented the CNLUs, which filed its plea through advocate Pritha Srikumar Iyer. Mehta agreed with the transfer of the cases but had suggested the Karnataka High Court to hear the cases.
Several students wanted the cases to be transferred to the Delhi High Court, saying it had passed a favourable order for some petitioners by identifying errors in two questions of the CLAT-UG 2025 exam and directing the consortium to revise their results.
On December 20, 2024, a Delhi High Court single judge directed the consortium to revise the result of CLAT-2025 over the errors in the answer key. The Delhi High Court identified two errors in Set A of the question paper. “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 had said.
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 consortium moved against the single judge’s decision.
On December 24, 2024, a division bench hearing the challenges refused to pass any interim order after prima facie finding no error with the single judge’s order over the two questions and said the consortium was free to declare the results in terms of the judge’s decision.
The CLAT 2025 was held on December 1 and results were declared on December 7, 2024.
