T. KAVINRAJ Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The writ petition has been filed for a direction to the respondents 2 and 3 to display the provisional answer keys for the drawing test part III paper of B.Arch admission conducted for the JEE(MAIN) April 2020 forthwith and also to facilitate the petitioner/candidate to have the answer key and the responses and also to have a choice of challenging the marks awarded in drawing test Part III B.Arch selection for the year April 2020. Brief Facts in nutshell:

(2.) The petitioner, after completing his Higher Secondary Course, applied for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (MAIN) 2020, conducted by the respondents 2 and 3 for admission to Indian Institute of Technology for the course of B.E., B.Arch., and B.Planning. The 3rd Respondent is the authorized/Nodal agency for conducting the said JEE eligibility Examination and he, accordingly, attended the two examinations conducted in January 2020 and April 2020 and secured 96.65 and 95.98 marks respectively in three papers, namely, Part I to Part III. Though he has secured good marks, since the part III answer key has not been published, he is deprived of his right to challenge the same and hence, he is before this Court with T.Kavinraj v. Union of India, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi the present writ petition.

(3.) Ms.L.Victoria Gowri, learned Assistant Solicitor General of India, contended that the writ petition is not at all maintainable in terms of the conditions contained in the prospectus with regard to legal jurisdiction, which is extracted hereunder: