IMPORTANT POINT
The revision of results was justified and protected the rights of the meritorious candidates as provided under the Constitution of India. The court held that the respondents rectified technical errors in the evaluation software and revised the results after proper application of the prescribed formula for evaluation of the answer sheets of the candidates.

JUDGMENT :

(Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J.) :

1. Since all the instant petitions involve a common controversy though with marginal variation in the contextual facts, therefore, for the purposes of the present analogous adjudication, the facts and the prayer clauses are being taken from the above-numbered D.B. Civil Writ Petition No.15641/2021, while treating the same as a lead case; thus, the rival submissions of the parties and the observations of the Court, in the present judgment, would also be based, particularly, on the factual matrix of the lead case.

1.1 The prayer clauses read as under:-

“It is therefore, humbly prayed on behalf of the petitioners that this writ petition may kindly be allowed and

a) The impugned Notice dated 28.10.2021 (Annex.8) issued by the Registrar (Examination), Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur declaring the revised result of Shorthand Test and Computer Test for Stenographer Examination may kindly be declared illegal and accordingly be set aside;

b) The Impugned Notice dated 30.10.2021 (Annex.9) issued by the Registrar (Examination), Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur rescheduling the interview rounds for the newly selected candidates in the revised result of Shorthand Test and Computer Test for Stenographer Examination may kindly be declared illegal, without jurisdiction and accordingly be set aside;

c) The Respondents may kindly be directed to upheld the previous final result of recruitment to the posts of Stenographers Examination 2020 published on 31.07.2021 (Annex.6);

d) The Petitioners be given joining upon the posts of Stenographer Grade-III (Hindi & English) and Stenographer as per the final result of Stenographers Examination 2020 published on 31.07.2021;

e) Any other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court considers just and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case, may kindly be passed in favour of the petitioners;”

2. Brief facts of the case, as placed before this Court by learned counsel of the petitioners, are that the respondents issued a detailed advertisement dated 18.01.2020 inviting applications from the eligible candidates for direct recruitment on the post of Stenographer Grade-III (Hindi/English) under the establishment of the District Courts, Legal Services Authorities and Permanent Lok Adalats in the State.

2.1. The petitioners submitted the application form and participated in the recruitment process (Shorthand test and Computer test) which was held between 03.04.2021 to 08.04.2021; thereafter, the respondents declared the results on 30.06.2021, whereby the petitioners were declared provisionally qualified for the interview.

2.2. Subsequently, the respondents issued a notice dated 06.07.2021 wherein it was notified that the interview for the provisionally qualified candidates would be held between 28.07.2021 and 30.07.2021 in two slots and the candidates would be required to bring the requisite documents in original, as stipulated in the list appended to the said notice. Thereafter, the respondents declared the final results on 31.07.2021 and since the candidates selected were less in numbers, therefore, the earlier decided margin of error i.e. 5% was enhanced to 15%, meaning thereby, such errors were stipulated to be deducted from the total number of words.

2.3. Being aggrieved of the aforesaid results, certain candidates filed a representation before the respondents and also filed Writ petition before this Hon’ble Court i.e.D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 11003/2021 & Other connected matters. A Division Bench of this Hon’ble Court vide order dated 25.10.2021 disposed of the said petition without going into the merits of the case, as the respondents were going to revise the results of the examination in question. Subsequently, the respondents vide the impugned order 28.10.2021 cancelled the provisional results dated 30.06.2021 and the final results dated 31.07.2