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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal challenging the answer key released for the 2022 Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) Prelims Exam.

A bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice Aniruddha Bose noted that the High Court has considered all the aspects and issues in detail.

The bench was hearing a plea challenging the Delhi High Court order dismissing a challenge to the answer key released for the 2022 DJS prelims examination raising objection to 3 answers given in the key. The Delhi High Court had dismissed the plea impugning the final answer keys which was declared after considering the objections raised by various candidates.

The High Court had relied on the case of Kanpur University v. Samir Gupta to note that unless it is found that there can be no vestige of doubt that the answer key is incorrect, the court would not intervene with the examination.

While dismissing the plea, Court had also noted that the authorities conducting the exams had followed the procedure of inviting objections, and the petitioner-aspirants had full opportunity to submit their objections and they did so.

The high court division bench had also found that the objections raised by the petitioners were duly considered by sufficiently qualified persons (in fact, a committee of Judges of the Court) before the answer key, including the impugned answer keys, was published and there was no allegation of any malice or lack of bona fide.

According to the petitioner-aspirants, answers to certain questions were not the 'appropriate answers' and therefore, the evaluation of answer sheets was flawed.

Case Title: Ananya Tyagi & Ors. Vs. Registrar General, Delhi High Court & Ors.