BY THE COURT (Per Hon’ble Mr.Ajay Rastogi, J):

Instant batch of writ petitions have been filed by the candidates who had participated in the Preliminary Examination held by the respondents, pursuant to Notification dt.26.04.2015 holding recruitment in Civil Judge Cadre, the post which is included in the Schedule appended to the Rajasthan Judicial Service Rules, 2010 (in short ‘the Rules, 2010’).

In fact, the petitioners have challenged the final answer key of certain questions dt.20.08.2015 of the Preliminary Examination held for recruitment in Civil Judge Cadre, 2015 conducted by the respondents and their grievance, in totality, is in respect of the multiple choice answers of 10 questions i.e. 7 questions in Law Subject; 2 in English Subject; & 1 in Hindi Subject and it has been prayed that either the model answer may be restored or all the four multiple choice answers are incorrect or the answer proposed by the Expert Committee is not correct and prayed that while accepting their contentions result be revised & direct the respondents to declare the result afresh.

We have noticed the rival versions, portraiting the relevant facts having regard to the identicalness in the challenge, from D.B.Civil Writ Petition No.12277/2015 & 13543/2015.

As adverted to hereinabove, an advertisement dt.26.04.2015 came to be notified by the respondents on its official website inviting on-line application forms from the eligible candidates for recruitment to 105 posts in the Civil Judge Cadre, 2015, which is included in the Schedule appended to the Rules, 2010. As per the scheme of Rules, 2010 and the terms of advertisement, the examination scheme for the recruitment to the cadre of Civil Judge consists of: (i) Preliminary Examination (Objective Type); (ii) Written Main Examination (Subjective Type); & (iii) Interview. The competitive examination for recruitment to the post of Civil Judge is conducted in two stages i.e. Preliminary Examination & Main Examination and 15 times the number of vacancies (category-wise) are declared qualified in the Preliminary Examination and admitted to the Main Examination and all those candidates who secure the same percentage of marks on the last cut-off are also admitted to the Main Examination. The Preliminary Examination for 105 posts of Civil Judge & Judicial Magistrate was conducted on 05.07.2015 and all the candidates who appeared in the Preliminary Examination were allotted the question papers in four series i.e. Series ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ & ‘D’ and the number of questions in each series was 100 and the maximum marks were 100.

On the next very day of the Preliminary Examination being held i.e. on 06.07.2015, the model answer key was uploaded for inviting objections till 15.07.2015 and it was specifically mentioned that no objections thereafter would be entertained. It is stated by the respondents in their reply that in response thereto, the respondents received objections against 73 model answers and out of total 73 questions, 52 were pertaining to Law subject; 11 were pertaining to English subject; & 10 were pertaining to Hindi subject. It is further stated that all the objections were placed by the respondents before an Expert Committee including subject Experts i.e. Law, English & Hindi and the Expert Committee after due deliberations prepare three separate reports i.e. for Law, English and Hindi subjects. The Expert Committee, after meticulous examination, gave its report, details whereof will be referred to at a later stage and unanimously sustained the objections by changing option of four questions viz.:-

1. Question No.A-11/B-22/C-26/D-33

2. Question No.A-30/B-6/C-10/D-17

3. Question No.A-43/B-50/C-61/D-68

4. Question No.A-67/B-39/C-50/D-57 Apart from it, in respect of two questions i.e. Question No.A-28/B-4/C-8/D-15 and Question No.A-89/B-93/C-98/D-100, it was proposed to delete or to take appropr