CLAT 2025 Conselling Postponed As Consortium Of NLUs Approaches Supreme Court
The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) will approach the Supreme Court to seek relief from the Delhi High Court’s directive to revise CLAT 2025 merit list. Now, the Consortium has informed candidates about the delayed CLAT 2025 counselling. A revised schedule will be released following the resolution of the appeal in the Supreme Court.
In an official notice, the Consortium said, “We are approaching the Supreme Court for appropriate relief against this order at the earliest available date due to the ongoing court vacation”. As per the original schedule the first merit list for admission was likely to be released on December 26, 2024. However, due to the legal hurdles, the list’s release and the subsequent counselling process have been postponed. The Consortium further said to issue a revised timeline after the appeal process in the Supreme Court.
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The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025 was conducted on December 1 for UG and PG admissions. The final answer key was published on December 7, 2024 which was challenged by several aspirants for alleged errors in the answers. Candidates also objected to the ‘unreasonable’ fee fo Rs 1,000 per question for submitting objections.
A writ petition was filed in the Delhi High Court, where in respose the Court directed the Consortium to revise the merit list published on December 7 on its official website. On December 20 a single-judge bench ruled to make changes in marking of two answers and instructed Consortium to update the merit list accordingly. Following this, the Delhi High Court’s division bench declined to stay order given by single judge bench.
