CLAT 2025 counselling delayed, Delhi HC to now hear result petitions on April 7
The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) is expected to release the revised CLAT 2025 Counselling Schedule soon. Candidates who have registered for the CLAT 2025 Counselling process will be eligible to participate. The official CLAT 2025 Cut-off will be available on the Consortium’s official website (consortiumofnlus.ac.in). While the CLAT Exam Calendar was initially published, the Consortium is now set to release an updated schedule for CLAT Counselling 2025.
Delay and legal challenges
The delay in the counselling process stems from multiple legal challenges raised against the CLAT 2025 examination results. Several petitions challenging the CLAT 2025 results were filed across various High Courts, prompting the Supreme Court to transfer all cases to the Delhi High Court. The transfer petition was initiated by the Consortium of NLUs, seeking a consolidated hearing on the matter.
Proceedings in Delhi High Court
On Monday, the Delhi High Court addressed these petitions and scheduled the next hearing for April 7, 2025. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela emphasized the urgency of resolving the matter promptly.
“There is a lot of anxiety in students. Their board exams are going on. They are very young. Because of this uncertainty, it is causing a lot of stress in students…We want to pass an order just to facilitate how smoothly we can start,” remarked Chief Justice Upadhyay during the hearing, as reported by LiveLaw.
The Court directed the registry to consolidate all matters received from different High Courts and requested the counsel representing the Consortium of NLUs to submit a counter affidavit within two weeks. Additionally, it instructed all parties to compile two separate sets of convenience compilations containing the documents and judgments they relied upon.
“We also direct the Registry to serve a copy of the writ petitions on the counsel representing the Consortium of NLUs. The Registry is directed to ensure that a copy of the writ petitions is served on the CLAT Consortium within three days. We also direct that in case any other writ petition is received, the copy shall also be served by the Registry upon the counsel for the CLAT Consortium within two days from the date it is received. List on April 07,” the Court ordered, according to LiveLaw.
Background of the legal dispute
The petitions against the CLAT 2025 results were pending in multiple High Courts, including Delhi, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, and Punjab & Haryana. The Supreme Court had earlier suggested transferring the matters to the Punjab and Haryana High Court since the first petition was filed there. However, they were ultimately moved to the Delhi High Court for a consolidated decision.
The legal dispute originates from a ruling in December 2024, when a single judge of the Delhi High Court found discrepancies in two answers from the CLAT-UG 2025 examination. The judge directed the Consortium to revise the results for affected petitioners. However, when the Consortium appealed, the division bench remarked that they found no apparent error in the single bench’s decision.
