ORDER :

This writ petition is filed ‘to declare the action of the respondents in conducting the digital evaluation process contrary to the principles laid down in ‘Dr. P.Kishore Kumar vs. State of Andhra Pradesh, 2016(6) ALT 408 ’and ‘Dr. J.Kiran Kumar & others vs. State of Andhra Pradesh’2017(6) ALT 213 and not allowing the petitioner to physically examine the answer scripts and furnishing copies of the answer scripts, as illegal and arbitrary.’

2. Case of the petitioner is that, she is a student of BDS in the college affiliated to the 1st respondent-University; she appeared for final year BDS examination held in September/October, 2020; as per the scheme of examination, a booklet containing 64 pages will be supplied to each student and the answer scripts will be evaluated by two examiners independently and the marks awarded by the two examiners will be clubbed and average marks will be taken and basing on the same, 1st the results of the students will be declared; the respondent introduced the digitalized evaluation system from 2016; in respect of BDS examination, the scheme of the examination which contains 8 subjects, where each subject comprises of theory and practical papers wi