Sureshwar Thakur

1. The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, Dharamshala invited applications from eligible aspirants for participating in the Himachal Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test, 2014. The petitioner being eligible in all respects participated in the examination held on 7.12.2014. The assessment of merit of the candidates participating in the aforesaid test was endeavoured to be fathomed on the basis of answers meted by them to multiple choice questions appended to the writ petition as Annexure P-2. In trite the grievance of the petitioner herein is that the subject matter expert who prepared the questionnaire, had qua question No.13 formed a conclusion that the correct and apt answer to it was the one indicated at choice (c). However, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner contends with fervour before this Court that the view besides the opinion formed by the expert in construing that the appropriate answer to question No.13 was the choice at serial No. (c) is inherently fallacious, inasmuch as even while adverting to the reply furnished to the writ petition at the instance of the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, Dharamashala wherein in s