Supreme Court of India

Jharkhand Public Service Commission v. Manoj Kumar Gupta and Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 18 S.C.R. 984
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 18 December 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we are of the considered opinion that the High Court erred in holding that the JPSC could not fix the mini mum marks for Paper III. Hence, we set aside the judgment of the High 989 Court dated 09.11.2016.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Service Law – Jharkhand Eligibility Test – Eligibility of the candidates for appointment as lecturers – Jharkhand Public Se rvice Commission (JPSC) issued advertisement on 19.07.200 6 inviting applications for Jharkhand Eligibility Test – The te st consisted of three papers; the first two papers were multiple ch oice questions and third paper was a descriptive type question paper – Candidates obtaining 50% marks in Paper I and II were eligible to take test in paper III – The writ petitioner obtained 50% marks in pape rs I and II – Thereafter, writ petitioner appeared in paper III – The JPSC

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