National Testing Agency vs Satya Nishth

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2025 Supreme(Del) 557

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
DEVENDRA KUMAR UPADHYAYA, SACHIN DATTA
National Testing Agency – Appellant
Versus
Satya Nishth – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Rupesh Kumar, Sr. Adv. along with Ms. Pankhuri Srivastava, Ms. Sarica Soam, Mr. Alekshendra Sharma and Mr. Aditya Kumar, Advs.
For the Respondent: Mr. Gautam Narayan, Sr. Adv. along with Mr. Udayan Verma, Ms. Asmita Singh and Ms. Disha Joshi, Advs. Mr. T. Singhdev, Adv. along with Mr. Abhijit Chakravarty, Ms. Anum Hussain, Mr. Sourabh Kumar, Mr. Tanishq Srivastava, Ms. Yamini Singh, Mr. Vedant Sood and Ms. Bhanu Gulati, Advs.

Table of Content
1. judgment regarding the appeal filed by the national testing agency. (Para 3)

JUDGMENT :

SACHIN DATTA, J.

CAV 286/2025 in LPA 490/2025

1. Learned counsel for the respondent no.1 enters appearance.

2. Caveat stands discharged.

LPA 490/2025

LPA 495/2025

3. LPA 490/2025 under Clause X of the Letters Patent has been filed on behalf of the National Testing Agency (NTA) assailing the judgment dated 28.07.2025 (‘the impugned judgment’) passed in W.P.(C) 8483/2025.

4. By virtue of the said judgment, the writ petition filed by respondent no.1 (W.P.(C) 8483/2025) has been allowed, with a direction to the appellant to award ‘grace marks’ to the writ petitioner, by applying the ‘normalization formula’ approved by the Supreme Court in Disha Panchal and others v. Union of India & Ors., (2018) 17 SCC 278.

5. Further, it has been directed that the updated result/scorecard of respondent no. 1 (writ petitioner in W.P.(C) 8483/2025) be communicated to him and uploaded within a period of five days. It has been further directed that the writ petitioner be assigned a supernumerary rank (with a view to ensure that the revised rank of the writ petitioner does not disturb the ranks of other candida