CLAT: Supreme Court verdict on Common Law Test results, everyone hearing in the same High Court on March 3!

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed to transfer all petitions challenging the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 results to the Delhi High Court. A bench of Supreme Court Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Vishwanathan directed that the Delhi High Court will hear all these cases on March 3. On January 15 last month, the Supreme Court indicated that it could transfer all these petitions to one High Court.

The Supreme Court ordered the registrars of Bombay, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka and Haryana and Calcutta High Court to transfer judicial records of all related cases to the Delhi High Court within 7 days.

The CLAT exam was held on 1 December 2024, which determines the graduate (UG) and Post Graduation (PG) Act in several law universities in India. Several petitions were filed in various High Courts, claiming that many questions of graduate examination were wrong. In some petitions, the CLAT results declared for admission to PG syllabus were also challenged.

Now the Delhi High Court will hear all these matters on March 3. In the last hearing, some students’ lawyers had requested the Delhi High Court to be elected and said that the Delhi High Court has already ordered that two answers to the CLAT-UG 2025 examination are wrong. The apex court had said that the pending writ petitions in various High Courts should be dealt with by a High Court as this will speed up the process.

Significantly, in December 2024, the Supreme Court refused to hear the petition challenging the key (of the answer) of the CLAT-PG 2025 examination and directed the petitioners to knock the High Court.