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RAJESH SHANKAR
Abhinav Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand, through its Chief Secretary – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of direction upon the respondent-JPSC to publish the petitioner’s result of Preliminary Test of Combined Civil Services Examination (P.T)-2021 [hereinafter referred to as ‘the P.T Examination, 2021’] held pursuant to Advertisement No. 01/2021 allotting appropriate marks in General Studies Paper-II keeping in view that as per the answer key published by the respondent-JPSC, he has got total 272 marks after self-evaluation which is more than the cut-off marks of 248.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Advertisement No. 01/2021 was published by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), Ranchi for Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination-2021 inviting applications from the eligible candidates for filling up different posts in the State of Jharkhand. Pursuant to the said advertisement, the petitioner filled up the examination form and appeared in the Preliminary Test held on 19.09.2021. The petitioner properly filled the digits in the roll number portion of Paper-II of OMR sheet and correctly bubbled/shadowed all the circles in accordance with the instructions issued by the JPSC. The de
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