Supreme Court of India
Sujasha Mukherji v. The Honble High Court of Calcutta, Thr. Registrar & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that a deduction of 10 marks being the appropriate mean arrived at be deducted from the initial marks of 55 obtained by the Appellant in Paper II. Despite this deduction F the Appellant will remain at second position in the merit list.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
Service Law - Judicial Service - Selection - To the post of District Judge - One of the candidates (appellant) obtained highest marks in 0 written test comprising of 5 papers - But on moderation of her marks in one of the papers from 55% to 37%, she was disqualified from further consideration i.e. appearing in interview/ viva voce on the ground that she did not obtain minimum marks of 40% in each paper - Held: The fundamental predications have not been followed for moderation - Instead of moderation, in fact a re-assessment of the answer-scripts of the appellant was done - Most of the
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Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Sonal Gupta & Ors. v. Registrar General, Rajasthan High Court Jodhpur & Anr.
- 2019 Pranav Verma & Others v. The Registrar General of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh & Anr.
- 2018 Taniya Malik v. The Registrar General of the High Court of Delhi
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