CLAT 2025: Supreme Court transfers all cases to Delhi High Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that all cases related to results of the Common Law Admission Test 2025 for undergraduate courses (CLAT UG) pending before various High Courts be transferred to the Delhi High Court..A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and Justices PV Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan passed the order."List before Delhi High Court on March 3. Within 7 days of this order registrar of each High Court should send the papers (of the concerned case pending before them) to Delhi High Court," the Supreme Court directed..The order was passed after the NLU Consortium moved the Court to transfer all matters to a single High Court to avoid contradictory verdicts on the same issue..Petitions concerning CLAT UG exam are pending before Delhi, Rajasthan and Punjab and Haryana High Courts.On December 20, single-judge Justice Jyoti Singh of the High Court had partly allowed the plea filed by the 17-year-old CLAT candidate Aditya regarding certain errors alleged in the paper for undergraduate admissions to National Law Universities (NLUs).Justice Singh had concluded that there were clear errors in two out of five questions flagged by the CLAT candidate. The single-judge opined that the Court cannot take a hands-off approach when such clear errors are made out.It had, therefore, directed the Consortium of NLUs to announce revised results after making changes in the award of marks with regard to these two questions..This ruling came to be challenged before the Division Bench of the High Court by both the NLU Consortium as well as Singh on whose petition the December 20 ruling was passed.The NLU Consortium's argument was that the single-judge had wrongly donned the hat of an expert and should not have interfered with exam answers that were finalised by experts. Meanwhile, Singh's appeal sought to modify the single-judge ruling to a limited extent. As per his plea, the single-judge ordered corrections for only two out of the five errors flagged by him. He has contended that there are 'blatant mistakes' in three more questions and hence, corrections with respect to these three questions as well.However, the NLU Consortium later moved the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of the matter to the top court..Besides, the UG exam, CLAT PG exam has also been mired in controversy over incorrect answer keys.The PG exam results are under challenge before the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the Bombay High Court..[Read Live Coverage below]