The Delhi High Court today pronounced judgment in a batch of petitions challenging the result of the 2015 Delhi Higher Judiciary Preliminary Examination..A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Pratibha Rani held that the answers to four questions in the exam were wrong..In December 2015, the High Court had invited applications to fill up 9 vacancies by direct recruitment to the Delhi Higher Judicial Service. The preliminary examination was conducted on April 3 of this year, wherein candidates were tested on 125 objective type questions. Five days after the exam, the High Court invited objections to the answer key uploaded on its website. Despite receiving multiple objections, none of these were entertained, and the results were released on August 26..This prompted a number of candidates, including lawyer Hargur Jaggi, to file writ petitions challenging the result of the exam. Answers to a total of 18 questions were initially challenged in the petitions. However, during the course of arguments, that number reduced to 9. With respect to one of the questions, one of them was not challenged when the High Court invited objections. Therefore, the bench ruled that the challenge to this question was not maintainable..Out of the remaining 8 questions, the answers to four of them were deemed wrong by the bench. One of those questions was the winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in 2015, which was wrongly marked as Brie Larson, who won the award in 2016. Another question was:.A fires a gun at a wedding reception leading to the death of one of the guests, whom he did not intend to hurt.A has committed murderA did not intend killing the guest and thus has committed no offenceA has committed culpable homicide not amounting to murderNone of the above.Option 1 was marked as the correct answer. The bench, however, held that option 3 was indeed the right answer, quoting a couple of Supreme Court decisions with similar factual matrices..The admitted corrections are likely to have a bearing on the outcome of the examination, especially since the questions carried negative marking..The petitioners were represented by Amit Yadav, Kaushal Mishra, Pradeep Bakshi, Hardik Luthra, DK Sharma and Abhinav Sharma. Chetan Lokur led the arguments for the Registrar General of the High Court, for whom Rajiv Bansal also appeared..Read the judgment:
The Delhi High Court today pronounced judgment in a batch of petitions challenging the result of the 2015 Delhi Higher Judiciary Preliminary Examination..A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Pratibha Rani held that the answers to four questions in the exam were wrong..In December 2015, the High Court had invited applications to fill up 9 vacancies by direct recruitment to the Delhi Higher Judicial Service. The preliminary examination was conducted on April 3 of this year, wherein candidates were tested on 125 objective type questions. Five days after the exam, the High Court invited objections to the answer key uploaded on its website. Despite receiving multiple objections, none of these were entertained, and the results were released on August 26..This prompted a number of candidates, including lawyer Hargur Jaggi, to file writ petitions challenging the result of the exam. Answers to a total of 18 questions were initially challenged in the petitions. However, during the course of arguments, that number reduced to 9. With respect to one of the questions, one of them was not challenged when the High Court invited objections. Therefore, the bench ruled that the challenge to this question was not maintainable..Out of the remaining 8 questions, the answers to four of them were deemed wrong by the bench. One of those questions was the winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in 2015, which was wrongly marked as Brie Larson, who won the award in 2016. Another question was:.A fires a gun at a wedding reception leading to the death of one of the guests, whom he did not intend to hurt.A has committed murderA did not intend killing the guest and thus has committed no offenceA has committed culpable homicide not amounting to murderNone of the above.Option 1 was marked as the correct answer. The bench, however, held that option 3 was indeed the right answer, quoting a couple of Supreme Court decisions with similar factual matrices..The admitted corrections are likely to have a bearing on the outcome of the examination, especially since the questions carried negative marking..The petitioners were represented by Amit Yadav, Kaushal Mishra, Pradeep Bakshi, Hardik Luthra, DK Sharma and Abhinav Sharma. Chetan Lokur led the arguments for the Registrar General of the High Court, for whom Rajiv Bansal also appeared..Read the judgment:
