#DJS exam: Petition challenging 2015 answer key, list of shortlisted candidates in Delhi HC

An examination that has been mired in controversy for the past year, the Delhi Judicial Services now faces another challenge. A student who appeared in the DJS exam in 2015 has moved a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking for quashing of that year’s answer key on grounds of it being ‘ambiguous’..The petition, filed by Manish Gupta through Advocates Arpit Bhargava & Hina Bhargava, states that when the answer key for DJS 2015 was released it involved a lot of ambiguities and had many questions with multiple answers that were erroneously marked as correct..Interestingly, the High Court seems to have realized that the exam produced an ambiguous question paper and came up with a notification in December 2015, inviting objections by candidate and further announced that it would be providing corrected answer keys to the candidates..But when the High Court came up with two revised answer keys in the month of February, the Petitioner realized that none of the objections raised by him were considered and neither were the contentious questions amended accordingly. Therefore, the Petitioner secured 2 marks lesser than the cut-off limit for the DJS mains..Hence the petition..Not only has Gupta now asked for the quashing of the list of shortlisted students, but has also sought to be awarded the marks that were “demonstrably wrong” in the answer key..When the matter came up for hearing on Wednesday before Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Najmi Waziri, the Bench issued notice to the Registrar of Delhi High Court and directed a reply to be filed within ten days..The case will now be heard on April 19 this year.