ORDER:

This writ petition is filed ‘to declare the action of the 1st respondent in evaluating the answer scripts of the petitioner through evaluation process for the examinations conducted for the MS orthopedic held in October/November 2019 and declaring the result, as illegal and arbitrary and a consequential direction to the 1st respondent for evaluation of the answer scripts manually.’

2. Case of the petitioner is that, he is a student of MS Orthopedics in the 2nd respondent-college for 2016-19 batch; he appeared for MS Orthopedic exam held in October/November, 2019 which consists of four theoretical papers, practical/clinical and viva; he secured 334 marks out of 700, but the minimum pass marks is 350; petitioner has a legitimate doubt about the method of evaluation; the imperfection in the process of digital valuation by the agency in respect of post graduate students was pointed out by this Court in ‘Dr. P. Kishore Kumar & others vs. State of Andhra Pradesh, 2016 (6) ALT 408’ and the non compliance of the said direction in Dr.P.Kishore Kumar’s case was pointed out in ‘Dr.J. Kiran Kumar & others Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh, 2017 (6) ALT 213’ and questioning the said evaluation,