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The candidate claimed that his one answer sheet was tampered with, showing different handwriting and that several pages from another answer sheet were missing which led to his failure in the examination
The Allahabad High Court on June 5, 2024, directed the Public Service Commission to submit the answer sheets for six exams taken by Shravan Pandey, who participated in the PCS J Main Exam 2022, for judicial review. Pandey raised concerns that his English answer sheet was tampered with, showing different handwriting and that several pages from another answer sheet were missing, leading to his failure in the examination.
The division bench consisting of Justice Siddharth Verma and Justice Manish Kumar Nigam opined that "if all the answer sheets are produced, the bench shall be able to compare the handwriting in the answer sheet of the English paper with the answers written in all other answer sheets".
Advocate Vibhu Rai, representing the petitioner, stated that the petitioner took the U.P. Judicial Service Civil Judge (Junior Division) (Mains) Examination 2022, with results announced on August 30, 2023. The petitioner was unhappy with his scores, particularly in the English paper where he received only 47 out of 200 marks. Seeking transparency, he filed an RTI request and obtained his marks for six papers. Upon inspecting the answer sheets, he noticed discrepancies: the handwriting in the English paper did not match his own, and several pages of the Hindi paper were torn. Dissatisfied with these findings, he demanded further scrutiny of the answer sheets under RTI.
In response, the court directed the Public Service Commission to produce all six of the petitioner's answer sheets for examination. This would enable the court to see whether the handwriting in the English answer sheet was in the petitioner's handwriting or not.
Case Title: Shravan Pandey v. State Of Up And 2 Others
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