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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J.
Prashant Rai – Appellant
Versus
State Of U.P. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Saurabh Shyam Shamshery, J.
1. Heard Sri Shivendu Ojha and Sri Shatrughan Sonwal, learned counsel for petitioner in leading W.P.No.11837 of 2020 and respective Ld. Counsel in connected Writ Petitions on behalf of petitioners, Sri K.Shahi, Sri K. K. Chand, learned counsel for the B.S.A., Sri Ashish Nagwanshi, learned A.C.S.C, Sri Rajeshwar Tripathi learned C.S.C and Ms.Shruti Malviya, Brief Holder in all Writ Petitions.
2. This present bunch of Writ Petitions, arises out of an Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination, 2018 and objections to answers given by the petitioners to some questions of said examination.
3. It is the case of the petitioners that if their objections are considered and accordingly their respective marks are increased, they may cross cut off marks i.e. 67 marks for General Category or 60 marks for SC Category, as the case may be.
4. This dispute has earlier brought before a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No.18235 of 2018, Aniruddh Narayan Shukla and 118 Ors Vs. State of U.P. & 3 Ors, which was disposed of vide judgment dated 30.10.2018, wherein certain directions were passed for re-evaluation of answers and for reference directions given
The court affirmed that academic evaluations should not be judicially interfered with unless glaring errors are evident, emphasizing adherence to procedural timelines for objections.
Courts should defer to expert committees' evaluations in academic matters unless mala fides are alleged; presumption of correctness applies to expert answers.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that re-evaluation of answer sheets is impermissible as per the advertisement and relevant rules. The court emphasized the importance of uniform ma....
The Court cannot interfere with expert opinion unless key answers are patently wrong, and there is no provision for re-evaluation.
Point of Law : Law that compassion sympathy or claim on basis of assessment cannot be permitted as entire examination process is derailed because some candidates are disappointed or dissatisfied or p....
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