SC Stays Delhi HC Ruling on CLAT UG 2025 Postponed Result, Hearing on May 5

The Supreme Court has put on hold the Delhi High Court direction to the Consortium of National Law Universities to release a new merit list for the CLAT UG 2025 test, putting the process on hold till further orders. An interim order was passed by a bench of Justices BR Gavai and AG Masih on April 30, issuing notices to the consortium and other respondents, and set the date of the next hearing as May 5.

The problem arises from the Delhi High Court order dated April 23, instructing the consortium to correct mistakes in four questions of sets B, C, and D of the CLAT UG test, conducted on December 1, 2024. The court instructed giving marks to candidates who have attempted these sets and the consortium to re-tally and re-publish the merit list within four weeks. But these candidates who had tried set A were denied this advantage since the High Court didn't discover any mistakes in that set. The intervention of the Supreme Court was preceded by a candidate who had cleared set A and had All India Rank 22 moving a special leave petition (SLP) under which he claimed that mandating by the High Court was prejudicing candidates of set A against set B, C, and D answer key candidates.

The results of CLAT 2025 were announced on December 7, and the case has taken a few legal turns since then. The Supreme Court had already merged a series of petitions against the exam results and referred them to the Delhi High Court for a common judgment earlier.

While the High Court had directed the consortium to take action within four weeks, the stay now by the supreme court suspends the revision pending, with all eyes on May 5 hearing for the next step in this high-stakes admission process that sees thousands of law aspirants in the country.