CLAT UG 2025: NLU Consortium to seek transfer of case from High Courts to Supreme Court

The candidate who has challenged the results of the Common Law Admission Test 2025 (CLAT-UG) told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU Consortium) has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the case from the High Court to the Supreme Court..The candidate Aditya Singh told a Bench of acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela that since similar matters are pending before other High Courts as well, a transfer petition has been filed before the Supreme Court to transfer all such cases to the top court.Hence, he sought an adjournment of the matter before the High Court which was allowed by the Bench..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 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 has been challenged before the Division Bench by both the NLU Consortium as well as Singh on whose petition the December 20 ruling was passed.The NLU Consortium's argument is 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 seeks 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.When the matter was heard by the Division Bench on December 24, it had refused to stay the single-judge order on the ground that no prima facie error was present in the single-judge's findings.The Bench had also clarified that the NLU Consortium can proceed with declaring the results in line with the single-judge order.When the matter came up for hearing today, Singh informed the Court about the transfer petition before the Supreme Court.The High Court then proceeded to adjourn the case for January 30. .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..Note: An initial version of the story said that the transfer petition was filed by the CLAT candidate. The error is regretted.