Supreme Court Stays Delhi High Court’s Order to Revise CLAT UG 2025 Results

The Supreme Court of India has temporarily stayed the implementation of a Delhi High Court order that called for a revision of the CLAT UG 2025 results. This development follows a petition challenging the fairness of that decision, particularly in relation to how different sets of the exam paper were treated.

A Bench led by Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih passed the stay order while hearing a special leave petition filed by Siddhi Sandeep Landa, a top-ranking CLAT candidate.

Landa contended that the High Court’s ruling which directed the Consortium of National Law Universities to re-evaluate answers to four disputed questions created an imbalance in how students from different paper sets were treated.

In the petition, Landa pointed out that candidates who attempted Sets B, C, and D were awarded marks for a question flagged as problematic, regardless of whether they attempted it.

Meanwhile, candidates with Set A- who had the same question framed differently, were left out of this benefit, especially if they had skipped the question due to perceived ambiguity. This, the petitioner argued, resulted in an unfair advantage to some students purely based on the version of the paper they received.

The Supreme Court acknowledged the issue and stayed the High Court’s order, which had previously mandated the Consortium to form an expert committee and consider releasing a revised merit list. The Apex Court also issued a notice to the Consortium, asking for its formal response.

In the meantime, the Bench directed the Consortium to make the existence of the pending case known to the public by updating its website accordingly. The matter is scheduled to come up for further hearing on May 5.

This stay brings temporary relief to students concerned about uncertainty in the admissions process to India’s premier National Law Universities, which admit students based on CLAT UG rankings.