ORDER :

Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Certiorari, calling for the records in Case No. 2948/Ma.tha.aa/2013, dated 13.11.2013 of the first respondent and quash the same.

1. This Writ Petition is filed by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC/petitioner, in short) challenging an order passed by the Tamil Nadu Information Commission (Commission/R2 in short).

2. The TNPSC had conducted Group-I Service Examinations in July 2012 for 131 posts. The selection of candidates was to be on the basis of marks secured in the written examination that comprised of two papers, General Studies-I and General Studies-II. Each of the papers contained inter-alia, two sections i.e. Part-A and Part-B.

3. According to the TNPSC, the valuation of the papers was done in a transparent and proper manner. They would aver that the papers were assigned dummy numbers and evaluated twice, by two different examiners.

4. The aggregated marks secured by the candidates in the double valuation by two independent examiners was sent for the selection process. Thus, the TNPSC has no details of the marks secured by the individual candidates and has