Delhi High Court Asks NLU Consortium To Avoid Charging Excessive Fee For Raising Objections, Closes Plea Over CLAT PG Errors
The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to take steps to avoid “excessive” fee charged for raising objections to questions for future examinations.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela disposed of the pleas challenging the results of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) PG, 2025 held on December 01 last year.
The pleas were filed by Anam Khan, Nitika and Ayush Agrawal.
Disposing of the pleas, the Court ruled two questions in favour of the petitioners and one in favour of the Consortium. The Consortium shall award marks to the candidates accordingly, it said.
On the issue of excess fee, the Bench said that quashing such levy at the present point in time (for the present session) may entail obstacles which may be unnecessary and may result in litigations which are not required.
“However, we expect that the aforesaid observations would be sufficient for the Consortium to take heed of and take appropriate steps to avoid such excessive fee in the next examinations, scheduled for the following years,” the Court said.
It said that it would be advisavle for the Consortium to place the said issue before the committee headed by Justice G. Raghuram (Retd.) for his valuable opinion.
”In that view of the matter, we dispose of the writ petitions without any order as to costs directing the Consortium to comply with the aforesaid directions forthwith and declare the results with expedition,” the Court concluded.
The exam held on December 01, 2024, ran into controversies due to complaints regarding questions.
Recently, the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) declared the revised results of the CLAT-UG, 2025.
In December 2024, a single judge found that two answers of the CLAT-UG 2025 exam were wrong and asked the Consortium to revise the results of the petitioners.
The Consortium had then appealed to the division bench against the Judgment.
On April 23, a division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya decided the Consortium’s appeal and ordered certain revisions.
On May 07, the Supreme Court had set aside the High Court’s order and directed certain other changes after which the results were revised.
Title: Anam Khan v. Consortium of National Law Universities and other connected matters
