Supreme Court of India

High Court of Tripura through the Registrar General v. Tirtha Sarathi Mukherjee & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 2 S.C.R. 692
Bench Ashok Bhushan and K. M. Joseph JJ.
Decided 6 February 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, it was not permissible for the High Court to examine the question papers and answer sheets itself, particularly, when the Commission had assessed the inter se merit of the candidates.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Judicial Services – Tripura Judicial Service – Revaluation of answer papers – Writ petition filed by the first re spondent challenging the results and seeking revaluation was dismissed by High Court – SLP dismissed by Supreme Court – 5 years there after, review petition filed against dismissal of writ petit ion, which was allowed by High Court – In instant case, appellant conte nded that there was no right to seek re-evaluation unless there is a provision which entitles a candidate to seek revaluation and there was an inordinate delay with which Review Petition was file d – Held: In absence

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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