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Amit Swami S/o Shri Gajjanand Swami – Appellant
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State of Rajasthan – Respondent
ORDER :
1. These writ petitions have been filed by the petitioners seeking to question the revised answer key issued by the Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Service Selection Board (‘the Board’) for recruitment to the post of Patwari pursuant to the advertisement dated 17.01.2020, preparation of a fresh answer key considering the objections raised by the petitioners for the disputed questions/erroneous answers based on the material produced by them and reevaluation of the answer-sheets and issuance of a fresh select list of provisionally selected candidates.
2. It is, inter-alia, indicated in the petitions that Advertisement No. 3/2019 was issued by the Board inviting online applications for direct recruitment on the post of Patwari, competitive written examination was held in four shifts pursuant to the advertisement on 23.10.2021; the preliminary answer key was issued by the Board on 23.10.2021 and a press-note was published, whereby online objections towards preliminary answer key were called from the candidates with their respective supporting materials. The final answer key was issued by the Board on 25.01.2022 on the basis of decision taken by the Expert Committee on the o
Limited scope of judicial review in matters involving expert committees' opinions and decisions
The court established that an expert committee's evaluation of answer keys in recruitment processes is presumptively correct, allowing judicial restraint unless glaring errors are evident.
Point of Law : Law that compassion sympathy or claim on basis of assessment cannot be permitted as entire examination process is derailed because some candidates are disappointed or dissatisfied or p....
Limited judicial review and reluctance to interfere with the decisions of expert bodies in matters of limited expertise, as established by the Hon'ble Supreme Court's principles
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