DHARMENDER GREWAL Vs. UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner appeared in the National Eligibility Test (NET) held by the respondent University Grants Commission (UGC) on 29th December, 2013 and has remained unsuccessful therein. It is the case of the petitioner that he remained unsuccessful because in paper I of the said examination, though, the Test Booklet containing questions distributed to him was of Code 'Y' but in the OMR answer sheet of the said Test Booklet, he erroneously shaded the code of his Test Booklet as 'X' instead of 'Y' and as a result whereof his answer sheet was read by the Optical Mark Reader as answering the questions in Test Booklet 'X' and which resulted in his having very low marks in the said paper. It is the case of the petitioner that had his OMR answer sheet been read with the correct Test Booklet Code 'Y', his answers would have been found to be correct, making him successful in the said examination.

(2.) THE petitioner has filed this petition seeking a direction to the respondent UGC to re -check his OMR answer sheet of the aforesaid paper, with the correct code.

(3.) I have heard the counsels.