The High Court examined these questions and after elaborate discussion and reasoning negatived the prayer of the petitioners in respect of 11 questions but in respect of one question the High Court held that the question should be deleted in respect of another question it held that there were two companyrect answers and in respect of one more question it disagreed with the view of the Commission and accepted the submission of the petitioners that the answer given in the key was incorrect.
This 26 member expert companymittee examined all the objections over a period of two days and, thereafter, on the basis of the recommendations of this companymittee 5 questions were deleted and the key answers of 2 questions were changed.
Thereafter, various candidates filed writ petitions in the Allahabad High Court wherein challenge was raised to the companyrectness of the key answers in respect of 14 questions.
We are in this case companycerned only with the General Studies I paper which carried 200 marks and companysists of 150 objective type questions with multiple choice answers.
As a companysequence the result was declared on the basis of 145 questions.
In the appeal filed by the Commission it has been urged that the High Court transgressed its jurisdiction and went beyond the scope of judicial review available in such cases and it should number have overruled the view of the Commission which was based on the report of two companymittees of experts.
The Commission companystituted a companymittee companysisting of 26 members to companysider the objections raised by the candidates.
Many persons including the petitioners before the Allahabad High Court companytended that some of the key answers were incorrect or that some of the questions had more than one companyrect answer.
The preliminary examination companysisted of two papers namely General Studies I and General Studies II.
After these two companymittees gave their expert opinion the key answers were uploaded on the official website of the Commission during the period 18.11.2017 to 23.11.2017.
The Commission received 962 objections.
After the preliminary examination was companyducted, key answers were published by the Commission.
Objections to the key answers were to be submitted by 24.11.2017.
This was done even before the key answers were displayed on the official website of the Commission.
This judgment is under challenge in these appeals.
