JUDGMENT

P.Patnaik, J. - The above mentioned writ applications are founded on similar facts and with the consent of the respective counsels, the matters have been heard analogously and all the writ applications are disposed of by this common order/judgment.

2. The petitioners in different writ applications being aggrieved with the marks awarded in the Odisha Secondary Teachers Eligibility Test, hereinafter referred to in short as 'OSTET' filed the aforesaid writ applications contending common plea and praying inter alia for re-evaluation of answer sheets once again and for awarding of extra marks, solely on the ground that some of the key answers being wrong and the petitioners are entitled to grace marks which would result in all the petitioners being qualified in the said test because the petitioners have been prejudiced for being unsuccessful due to lack of 1 to 3 marks only.

WRIT PETITIONS

3. The petitioner in W.P.(C) No.20691 of 2020 has challenged the action of the opposite parties in not awarding proper marks in the answer scripts for 'OSSTET' Examination, 2019 with regard to Paper-I Set-'C'. The petitioner being Science graduate appeared the 'OSSTET' examination on 22.01.2020.