JUDGMENT :

J.J. Munir, J.

These are a bunch of 147 writ petitions, where the petitioners, who are all candidates appearing in the Assistant Teachers Recruitment Examination, 2019, have made it common cause to assail the result of the selection and consequent appointment of the luckier amongst them on ground that the answer key published on 08.05.2020 is patently flawed. There is much variety to the manner and the extent these petitioners want the Court to scrutinize the recruitment examination, but in substance, all of them say that they have been evaluated on the basis of a flawed answer key that has led to an actionable aberration in the result. All the writ petitions, despite the variety and the extent of relief claimed, raise common questions of fact and law and are, therefore, being decided by means of this common judgment and orders. The writ petition preferred by Rishabh Mishra and others, being Service Single No.8056 of 2020, has been heard as the leading case along with all the other connected writ petitions and is being decided as such.

2. Heard Dr. Lalta Prasad Mishra