DJS Prelims 2022: Supreme Court Dismisses Pleas Challenging Final Answer Key, Says High Court Has Considered Each & Every Question In Detail

While dismissing the petitions preferred by the unsuccessful candidates who were ineligible for the Mains exam, the vacation bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose remarked that the High Court has considered each and every question in detail.

"Let it be finalised, each and every question has been considered by the High Court. Prepare for the next exam," the bench said.

Accordingly, the bench in their order said, "Having heard the counsel for parties and having gone through the impugned order and considering the fact that the High Court has considered in detail each and every question and the answer and have negatived the challenge, we see no reason to interfere while exercising our powers under Article 136. SLP is dismissed."

The SLP had assailed the High Court's order passed by the division bench of Justices Vibhu Bakhru and Amit Mahajan. Before the High Court, the candidates had contended that certain questions were not appropriate answers and therefore the evaluation of the answer sheets was flawed.

The petitioners had further contended that if they were awarded marks in respect of certain questions, which they claimed were the most appropriate answers but were evaluated otherwise, they would clear the threshold of marks necessary to be eligible to appear for the main exams.

While dismissing the petition, the division bench of the High Court had said, "In the present case, the respondent has followed the procedure of inviting objections. Thus, the petitioners had full opportunity to submit their objections and indeed, had done so. The objections raised by the petitioners were duly considered by sufficiently qualified persons (in fact, a committee of Judges of this Court) before the answer key (including the impugned answer keys) was published. There is no allegation of any malice or lack of bona fide."

Case Title: Ananya Tyagi and Ors. v Registrar General, DHC & Ors| SLP(C) 10513/2022 & Karan Goyal v. Registrar General| SLP(C) 10462/2022

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