AJAY TEWARI, J.

1. By this petition the petitioner is seeking direction to the respondent to issue result of the petitioner by treating the answer of question Nos.44 & 71 as correct and not to take into consideration the subsequent change in the Answer Key in the Joint CSIR-Net December, 2016 official answer key booklet-B.

2. The admitted facts are that the petitioner (who is M.Sc. in the discipline of Applied Physics) applied for the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET Exam) conducted by the respondent-CSIR in December, 2016 in the subject of Physical Sciences. She obtained 67 marks (33.50%) which was below 75.76 marks (37.88%), the cut off fixed for the unreserved category of JRF and 68.18 marks (34.09%), the cut off fixed for the unreserved category of Lecturer. The dispute has arisen with regard to the answers for two questions i.e. question No.44 and question No.71 of booklet B.

3. After the conduct of the examination the respondent uploaded the answer key (as prescribed by the original experts who had set the paper) on its website and as per that answer key the options which had been marked by the petitioner were correct. Further, as p