The Delhi High Court on Friday provided partial relief to candidates who had challenged the final answer key of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-PG 2025, citing discrepancies in a few questions.
While disposing of three petitions by students seeking rectification of alleged errors in the answer key, the court ruled in favour of the students in two questions and upheld the Consortium of National Law Universities’ (NLUs) stance on a third. It directed the Consortium to revise the scoring accordingly and declare the results.
The batch of petitions by the students sought directions to the Consortium to rectify alleged errors in the final answer key of the CLAT-PG for the academic year 2024-25 and to re-issue the results after the necessary corrections.
Additionally, they challenged the fee of ₹1,000 per question for raising objections to the provisional answer key, terming it excessive, and sought a direction to the Consortium to reconsider this charge.
The court highlighted the issue of a high fee of Rs 1,000 charged by the consortium per question for raising the objection to the provisional answer key, observing there ought to be a “fine balance” between the concerns of the candidates and the institutions.
