CLAT 2025: Consortium Of NLUs Oppose Plea In Delhi High Court Which Challenges Final Answer Key To Under Graduate Exam

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has opposed before the Delhi High Court a plea seeking quashing of the final answer key published for CLAT-UG 2025 examination conducted on December 01. The response states that an expert committee was constituted by the Consortium which has duly considered all objections received from various candidates before finalising the answer key. The petition has been moved by a candidate who appeared in the examination and specifically challenged answers to five questions. The Consortium has said that it has adopted a rigorous internal process before finalising and publishing the Final Answer Key on December 07 and that such process gave adequate opportunity to all candidates, including the Petitioner, to raise their objections to the Provisional Answer Key. “Therefore, it is humbly submitted that the above sequence of events demonstrates that the Respondent already has a robust internal mechanism in place, to ensure objectivity and accuracy in the CLAT exam results and also time-bound conclusion of the admission process,” the response states. It adds: “The above sequence of events will show that all the Disputed Questions were duly deliberated on by the Expert Committee and also the Oversight Committee; a mere difference of view with them will not entitle the Petitioner to seek judicial interference.”It has also been submitted that if there still remain any disagreements of candidates with the view of the Oversight Committee, no further remedy is available, as the process has to attain finality at some stage. “If the process adopted by the examination authority is one that is rigorous and aimed at ensuring objectivity and accuracy, the Courts will usually not substitute their own views for what may be a correct answer in place of the view taken by experts,” the affidavit says. It adds: “It is submitted that the overarching public interest lies in giving a finality to the results, so that the counselling process may proceed as per schedule and without either opening the floodgates for more challenges to the Answer Key or objections of other candidates who wish to support the views taken by the experts.”The matter is listed for hearing before Justice Jyoti Singh at 2:30 PM.Title: Aditya Singh (Minor) v. Consortium of National Law UniversitiesThe Consortium was represented by Mr. Sandeep Sethi, Senior Advocate, along with Mr. Arun Srikumar, Partner, Keystone Partners and Mr. Shubhansh Thakur, Associate, Keystone Partners.

CLAT 2025: Consortium Of NLUs Oppose Plea In Delhi High Court Which Challenges Final Answer Key To Under Graduate Exam

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