The division bench consisting of honorable Justice C. Praveen Kumar and justice D. Ramesh gave orders on the writ appeal filed by the appellants. The writ petition was filed seeking to declare the actions of respondent’s in conducting examination as illegal, improper, and incorrect.
Facts
In this case, by the order dated 22.10.2020, the learned single judge postponed the main examination which was scheduled to be held on 2.11.2020. The Judge directed the public service commission to make appropriate correction in marks awarded to the candidates who appeared for the examination, after that a new merit list and cut off point will be declared and those who qualify in the new merit list will be eligible for writing the main examination.
After completion of the above procedure, the main examination will be conducted. Challenging the same the writ appeal was filed by the appellants. Various issues were raised such as mistakes in translation of questions from English to the Telugu language; not allowing non-programmable calculators for solving certain questions; more than one correct answer in multiple-choice questions etc.
Arguments Advanced
The learned Counsel of the appellants submitted before the court that Q. Nos. 37, 48, 60 in paper-I and Q. Nos. 116 and 117 in the paper-II are not only translated incorrectly but they are incorrectly framed also. The answers given to some questions did not match with the translations and were quite opposite to each other. The learned Counsel pleads before the court for postponing of the main examination to be held on 14.12.2020.
The learned Counsel of the respondents submitted before the court that mistakes, if any, committed, while framing the questions and picking up the right answers will be affecting all students equally and no exception can be claimed by the appellants.
He further contends that in the writ appeal the objection was of translation error only and the arguments of the wrong framing of the question has been raised for the first time. He further adds that these writ appeals are not filled immediately after passing of the order rather they are filed only when the date of final examination was given.
Analysis of the Court
The analysis drawn in this case is that the impugned order was passed on 22.10.2020 and copies of the same were furnished within five days. The appellants filed the writ appeal in the first week of December 2020, a week before the main examination, which is scheduled for 14.12.2020.
Further, it was seen that it is not open to the court to examine the correctness of the questions and answer key to come to a conclusion which is different from that of the expert committee. This point was decided in Vikesh Kumar Gupta vs The State of Rajasthan & others. A thirty-day time period was given to the candidates to raise objections on the answer key and questions of the paper. As the grievance of the appellants here are not the objections raised by them not considered, so the request of the appellants cannot be considered.
Decision of the Court
The Court held that it is not open to them to decide the correctness of the questions which are discussed by the experts. Further, the appellants were given ample time to file their objections. Therefore, the court in this case dismissed the writ appeal filed by the appellants. No costs are allowed and any appeal pending in all the writ appeals shall be closed.
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