JUDGMENT

The petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus declaring that the petitioner deserves for re-evaluation of her answer scripts of Final BDS course examinations held in February, 2021.

2. The petitioner’ case succinctly is thus:

The petitioner appeared for final BDS examinations held in February 2021, and got failed in two subjects i.e., Conservative Dentistry and Prosthodontics and she was declared as failed in theory and obtained marks 49/50 in Conservative Dentistry subject and 49/50 in Prosthodontics, with a margin of one mark to get pass in said subjects. Later she applied for re-totaling of the said subjects to 2nd respondent University, and after re-totaling there was no change of marks awarded by the examiners. The respondent University did not permit the petitioner for personal verification of total marks in said re- totaling. It is submitted that evaluation of her answer scripts by digital method was not properly done by 2nd respondent University. The respondents 2 & 3 have adopted a different procedure in a whimsical fashion which is ex facie illegal. However, there was a large scale violation of the regulation passed by the Executive Council for digital evaluation of answ