At least one CLAT 2025 question has to be scrapped: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Monday remarked that at least one question in this year's Common Law Admission Test (CLAT 2025) has to be scrapped. .A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela made the remark while discussing the undergraduate (UG) question paper. It observed that the question paper does not provide any reference, but expects students to do so. "Are the students expected to know this passage?" the Court asked. Appearing for the Consortium of National Law Universities, which conducts the CLAT exams, Senior Advocate Rajshekhar Rao said that the expert committee constituted to review the errors in the paper has suggested withdrawal of a question in which there are problems. .The Court also said that it will try to decide the cases related to the UG exam before the upcoming vacations. After hearing the submissions briefly, the Court said it will continue tomorrow (April 8). .Students anxious, will hear petitions challenging CLAT 2025 on priority: Delhi High Court.The Court is seized of a batch of matters related to the CLAT 2025 exams after the Supreme Court ordered their transfer.On December 20, 2024, single-judge Justice Jyoti Singh partly allowed a plea filed by a 17-year-old CLAT candidate Aditya Singh, regarding certain errors alleged in the CLAT UG paper.This ruling was challenged before a division bench of the High Court, with the NLU Consortium contending that the single-judge had wrongly donned the hat of an expert. The CLAT candidate also filed an appeal before the division bench, seeking a further revision of his result. Later, the NLU Consortium moved the Supreme Court seeking a transfer of the matter to the top court.Meanwhile, petitions challenging the CLAT results were under challenge before the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the Bombay High Court, among other High Courts. To avoid such parallel proceedings, the NLU Consortium urged the Supreme Court to transfer the case to a single court. In view of such concerns, the Supreme Court on February 6 ordered the transfer of all CLAT-related cases to the Delhi High Court..[Read live-coverage below]