{"id":9747,"date":"2026-09-17T05:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:54:25","slug":"clat-2026-rajasthan-hc-rejects-plea-to-change-reservation-category-after-result-says-deadlines-must-be-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/clat-2026-rajasthan-hc-rejects-plea-to-change-reservation-category-after-result-says-deadlines-must-be-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"CLAT 2026: Rajasthan HC Rejects Plea to Change Reservation Category After Result, Says Deadlines Must Be Followed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jaipur:<\/strong> The Rajasthan High Court has refused to allow a CLAT 2026 candidate to change her reservation category from Unreserved-Women to General Category-Rajasthan Domicile (GC-RJ) after the application correction deadline and declaration of the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Maneesh Sharma dismissed the writ petition filed by a CLAT 2026 candidate seeking admission to the five-year BBA LL.B. (Hons.) course at National Law University, Jodhpur, under the Rajasthan domicile category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court held that allowing a candidate to change the reservation category after the prescribed deadline would disrupt the admission process and affect other candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After first counseling she realised<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The petitioner had secured All India Rank (AIR) in the General category. She had originally applied under the Unreserved category and claimed the Women reservation, but did not select the GC-RJ category in her application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the first counselling round, she realised that her Rajasthan domicile category had not been claimed and approached the CLAT Consortium seeking a correction. Her request was rejected on the ground that the correction deadline had already expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Counselling Preferences Cannot Be Used to Change Reservation Category\u2019<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Court rejected the argument that the counselling rules allowed the petitioner to change her category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court clarified that the provision relied upon by her only allowed candidates to update their university preferences, such as the choice and order of participating National Law Universities. It did not permit a change in the reservation category after the correction deadline.
One seat vacant only protective manner.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court also noted that although one seat at NLU Jodhpur had been kept vacant pursuant to an earlier interim order, that order did not create a right to admission. The seat had been kept vacant only as a protective measure pending the final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court observed that allowing a reservation category to be changed after the result could affect the merit list, other selected candidates and seat allotments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Court further held that a candidate must remain vigilant and correct the application within the time provided by the examining authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holding that there was no legal error in rejecting the petitioner\u2019s request, the High Court dismissed the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has refused to allow a CLAT 2026 candidate to change her reservation category from Unreserved-Women to General Category-Rajasthan Domicile (GC-RJ) after the application correction deadline and declaration of the result. Justice Maneesh Sharma dismissed the writ petition filed by a CLAT 2026 candidate seeking admission to the five-year BBA LL.B. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wppp_is_locked":false,"_wppp_selected_plans":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,29],"tags":[3235,3230,3225,3228,3233,3226,3223,3234,48,1888,3236,2109,659,43,150,3231,3229],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rajasthan-high-court","category-top-stories","tag-admission-deadline","tag-admission-process","tag-clat","tag-clat-correction-deadline","tag-clat-counselling","tag-clat-twenty-twenty-six","tag-common-law-admission-test","tag-law-admission","tag-legal-news","tag-merit-list","tag-national-law-university-jodhpur","tag-nlu-jodhpur-student","tag-rajasthan-hc","tag-rajasthan-high-court","tag-rajasthan-legal-news","tag-seat-allotment","tag-unreserved-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}