JUDGMENT :

1. The instant petitions raise issues interconnected, analogous and akin to each other, as such, are being disposed of by this common judgment.

WP(C) No. 1893/2020

(1) Facts as emerging from the petition

- The respondents issued a notification in March 2016 inviting online applications from eligible candidates for participation in examination for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and for determining the eligibility for appointment of Lectures (NET) in subjects falling under the faculty of Science and Technology. The petitioner applied in the response to the notification for grant of Lectureship of NET in Mathematical Science. The petitioner participated in the examination under Roll No. 432411and came to be provided Question Booklet Series-C.

- The result of the examination came to be declared in the month of November-December 2016 and petitioner shown to have not qualified having secured 47.38% marks against the cut-off merit of 49.39%.

- The petitioner is stated to have submitted objections to the declaration of result in respect of answers indicated in the answer ke