The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has made public the CLAT 2026 Grievance Redressal Notification in respect of the students who took the Common Law Admission Test this year. The official document has been posted on the Consortium’s website on December 17, 2025, and it sets out a special channel through which candidates may communicate the problems encountered after the CLAT 2026 exam and the announcement of results.
According to the notice, a Grievance Redressal Committee was established, which is headed by Honourable Mr Justice M.R. Shah, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. The committee's objective is to resolve the grievances of students concerning administrative or procedural issues, excluding disputes related to the answer key.
Candidates may express apprehensions about mistakes in the summing up or calculation of marks, registration for counselling, or problems with the online portal, inconsistencies in the published seat matrix, defects in facilities or infrastructure at examination centres, behaviour or treatment by invigilators, and any other incidental administrative issues, which shall be responded to by the Consortium of NLUs.
However, If the candidates want to object to the final answer key or question paper, such objections cannot be addressed via this grievance window. Since the test takers were already given the chance to do so when the provisional answer keys were published earlier.
CLAT 2026 Grievance Submission Timeline
The Consortium of NLUs' grievance portal has opened on December 17, 2025, at 5:00 PM and will be accessible till December 24, 2025, at 5:00 PM. Only the official online grievance portal on the CLAT website may be used to file grievances, and no charge is payable for the submission. Students must check that they have filed their grievances within the time frame given, as no late submissions will be taken in any case. Also, candidates are advised against submitting multiple grievances for one and the same issue.
Steps to Submit CLAT 2026 Grievances
Step 1: Visit the official CLAT 2026 exam portal and log in with your existing username and password.
Step 2: Click on the “Submit Grievance” link on your user dashboard.
Step 3: Choose the category and mention the nature of your grievance while describing the issue clearly up to 1000 characters.
Step 4: Upload supporting documents if applicable.
Step 5: Complete the declaration and submit the redressal form.
The Grievance Redressal Committee shall not verify or hear any complaints that are related to the accuracy of the final answer key - these have been handled through the provisional answer key objection process and the review by subject experts.
It is just a short time after the CLAT 2026 results were declared and the counselling process started, that the students have been given a formal mechanism to ask for the redressal of their grievances on the issues of operation or procedure that they might have encountered after the examination.
