Supreme Court of India

U.P.P.S.C., through its Chairman & Anr v. Rahul Singh & Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 5 S.C.R. 28
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 14 June 2018

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion we allow the appeal filed by the U.P. Public Service Commission and set aside the judgment of the Allahabad High Court.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Education/Educational Institutions – Matters of acad emic nature – Interference by the court – Extent and power of – Upper Subordinate Services preliminary examination – Key answers challenged by the candidates as incorrect – High Cour t overruled the view of the Commission which was based on the report of expert Committee – On appeal, held: Judges are not experts and cannot take on the role of experts in academic matters – They mu st exercise great restraint in such matters and should not over step their jurisdiction to upset the opinion of the experts – Courts s hould be reluctant to

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