Regulation aspirants problem CLAT 2025 reply key in Supreme Court docket, search keep on outcomes
MUMBAI: Two regulation aspirants have moved the Supreme Court docket difficult the provisional reply key launched by the Consortium of Nationwide Regulation Universities (NLUs) and looking for a keep on the publication of the Widespread Regulation Admission Check (CLAT) 2025 outcomes and the following counselling course of, days after it was carried out. The check was held in centres throughout the nation on December 1. The aspirants have additionally questioned the procedural lapses and the unequal remedy of candidates in the course of the conduct of the check.
The 2 petitioners, Anam Khan from Raipur, who took the examination at Authorities Regulation School in Mumbai, and Ayush Agarwal from Indore, claimed of their petition that the provisional reply key contained a couple of incorrect solutions, demonstrating negligence that might influence their advantage and rankings. Advocate Manasi Bhushan is representing the petitioners within the Supreme Court docket. The matter is stored for listening to on December 9.
The candidates additionally claimed that the timeline supplied for elevating objections was arbitrary and the associated fee concerned was exorbitant and unreasonable, significantly when errors arose from the Consortium’s negligence. A complete of 26 universities are a part of the Consortium.
Candidates needed to pay Rs 1,000 per objection, and based on them, there have been errors in 12 questions, for which they must pay Rs 12,000. The petitioners additionally challenged the procedural lapses and unequal remedy of candidates in the course of the conduct of the examination, which violates the correct to equality underneath Article 14 and the correct to schooling underneath Article 21A of the Structure of India. Whereas Khan was given the query booklet and the OMR sheet at 1.50 pm, following the foundations, Agarwal acquired the identical at 2 pm, leading to much less time for the examination. Of their prayer, the petitioners have requested a grant of keep on the outcomes and the initiation of the counselling course of till the ultimate reply secret’s launched with none errors.
