10 DJS Aspirants Move Delhi HC Challenging 6 Erroneous Questions

Ten Delhi Judicial Services-2019 unsuccessful candidates have moved the Delhi High Court ruing six "patently erroneous questions" in the examination and seeking that their marks be recomputed after necessary corrections/ deletions in these questions.

The ten candidates have moved the court through advocate Prashant Manchanda who sought quashing of results of DJS 2019 declared on September 26 while also praying that the Registrar General of the High Court be restrained from conducting the DJS Mains exam till the results are processed afresh.

The petition points out six questions which either had two most appropriate answers or contained wrong answers as options.

Manchanda relied on Delhi High Court judgment in case titled Sumit Kumar vs Delhi High Court & Anr to say that "even the most meritorious of candidates can fail, when confronted with a situation like the present where two or more options in answer to a question appear to be equally appropriate. A candidate cannot be made to suffer on account of his having chosen one option and not the other".

The petitioners have prayed for quashing of earlier list of selected candidates and urge that a fresh list of eligible candidates be prepared on the basis of corrections/ deletions/ amendments, after making requisite corrections with regards to the six questions pointed out by them.

They have also prayed for setting aside of Clause 13 of the general Instructions provided along with the admit card so as to allow all the candidates to file their requisite objections to the errors in the question paper and the Answer Keys published belatedly on September 26.

The petitioners said they have been "unwarrantedly suffering owing to demonstrable and palpable errors in the DJS Preliminary examination 2019, for no fault of theirs, whatsoever".

A similar petition has been filed by other DJS 2019 aspirants too.

This is not the first time that DJS exams have come under challenge. Almost every exam has reached the court due to incorrect answers or marking system. In February this year, the High Court had ordered redraw of DJS-2018 preliminary results after ordering that two questions would be deleted and one will have two correct answers.

That petition was also argued by Manchanda.