The Delhi High Court identified two errors in Set A of the question paper for the CLAT 2025 UG exam, specifically in questions 14 and 100, reported Bar and Bench. The court stated, “The errors in question Nos. 14 and 100 are clearly evident, and ignoring them would be unjust to the petitioner, even though this could affect the results of other candidates.”
Justice Jyoti Singh upheld the petitioner’s claim, agreeing with the Expert Committee’s assessment that option ‘C’ was the correct answer to question 14. Singh further stated that all candidates who selected option ‘C’ should receive full marks. Additionally, the Delhi HC deemed question 100 invalid due to errors.
The petitioner, 17-year-old Aditya Singh, who appeared for the CLAT 2025 UG exam, sought corrections to other contested questions as well. He argued that the errors in the answer key caused him to lose marks, impacting his chances of admission to top institutes. Singh also requested the Consortium to form an expert committee to address his objections and re-evaluate his exam answers.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court had earlier warned against interference in academic matters. However, the Delhi High Court said that errors on the part of the exam authorities could compromise the fairness of results, the report stated.
“Therefore, the law does not commend a total ‘hands off’ approach and in exceptional cases where questions are found to be demonstrably wrong, the resultant injustice to a candidate must be redressed and undone," the Court said.
