JUDGMENT :

1. This bunch of the writ petitions have been filed by thousands of candidates raising a challenge to the key answers in the final answer key published on 08.05.2020 in an examination conducted on 06.01.2019.The recruitment was held to fill up vacancies of the post of Assistant Teachers in different basic schools run by the Basic Shiksha Parishad in the State of U.P. pursuant to a notification dated 01.12.2018. The present set of writ petitions are second round of litigation by the candidates who seek to challenge the key answers displayed by the examining body after entertaining the objections raised by several candidates. The writ petitions filed in the month of May’ 2020 and afterwards tagged in the present bunch, had been heard on 09.02.2021. At the very inception of the hearing, the Court had directed the counsels for the petitioners to sit together and find out the specific number of questions with reference to the booklet series ‘A’, key answers of which are subject matter of challenge in the present bunch.

2. At the time of hearing, the counsels for the petitioners had given the number of the questions of the booklet question series ‘A’ with corresponding questions