1. Heard counsel for the parties.

2. These all appeals have come for consideration in a peculiar circumstances affecting all those persons who had participated in the selection process held for recruitment to the post of Junior Engineer (Civil) in pursuance of Advertisement issued on 14.8.2006 in which 2268 posts were advertised. Against the advertised posts 210 candidates were selected and of them 186 joined.

3. The selection process required taking written text in two papers of 100 marks each. One paper was about General Knowledge and the other is about Civil Engineering. The controversy relates to defects in conduct of Civil Engineering paper of 100 marks having 100 objective questions Candidates were to attempt as many as they could within the fixed period. Each question is to be answered. Correctness of the answer is to be tallied with set of model or key answers.

4. Some of the candidates who had not cleared the examination vide five separate writ petitions challenged the correctness of result alleging that the question paper of Civil Engineering which was in the form of objective questions had model answers with which the answers given by the candidates were to be ta