Supreme Court of India

Union Public Service Commission Etc. v. Angesh Kumar & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [2018] 1 S.C.R. 1076
Bench Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 20 February 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the impugned order(s) is set aside and the writ petitions filed by the writ petitioners are dismissed.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Right to Information Act, 2005 – ss. 3, 6, 8, 9 and 11 – Writ petition u/Art. 226 of Constitu tion – Filed by unsuccessful candidates of the Civil Ser vices (Preliminary) Examination – Seeking direction to Un ion Public Service Commission (UPSC) to disclose the details of marks (raw and scaled) awarded to them in the exam – Also sought informat ion in the form of cut-off marks for every subject, scaling methodology, model answers, and complete result of all the candidat es – Single Judge of High Court directed UPSC to provide the sought information – View of Single Judge affirmed by Division

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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