ARUNDHATI DIXIT Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Challenge in the present writ petition has been laid to the result of the Haryana Talent Search Examination (for short, the 'NTSE'), Stage-I, Haryana, declared on 20.02.2014, on the ground that large number of students from one school and also from the same examination centre, had been declared successful in the said examination and as many as 53 students had taken the total 85 seats, from the Haryana State pool seats. The allegation in the writ petition was that the examination centre where the said students had given the examination was Saini Senior Secondary School, Narnaul, having Centre Code No.2221.

(2.) On filing of the written statement on behalf of respondent No.4, this Court noticed that 36 students were of Yaduvanshi Shiksha Niketan School, Mohindergarh and the other 10 students belonged to Yaduvanshi Shiksha Niketan School, Narnaul and thus, in total, 46 candidates had become successful from the said institutes run by a common management. A direction was, thus, issued by this Court to respondent No.2 to look into the allegations made by the petitioners and submit a report. In pursuance of the said directions, report dated 02.05.2014 had been received by this Court, and the said report was made part of the record as Annexure P-13. Accordingly, the said students were also directed to be made aware of the pending litigation by respondent No.4 and so that they had liberty to object to the writ petition by way of filing written statement. A compliance affidavit has also been filed by the respondent No.4.

(3.) Vide a detailed order dated 09.05.2014, it was noticed that in the State of Haryana, 15737 students appeared and out of them, 99 candidates were declared successful. Counsel for the private-respondents has raised various objections that as many as 322 students of the said institute had given the said test and it is a reputed group of institutions and the writ petitioners have created unnecessary bias. Even today, similar written statement has been filed to demonstrate that the candidates who had been successful had also secured very high marks in the Matriculation examination held in March, 2014 and 10 students of Yaduvanshi Shiksha Niketan School, Narnaul had cleared NTSE, Stage I and that out of the 10 students, 8 secured 10/10 CGPA in the Matriculation Examination and it is also deposed in the written statement that the management had carved out a special section of meritorious students and special coaching was provided to them.