Sonal Singh v. State of U.P. and 3 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
In a writ petition challenging the rejection of objections to an examination answer key, the High Court dismissed the plea. The court held the petition was hit by laches as the petitioner failed to file objections within the stipulated time window, and the earlier court direction did not create a new right to bypass procedural timelines.
What the court decided
Court No. - 36
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 2236 of 2022
Petitioner :- Sonal Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sudarshan Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,A.K.S.Parihar,Aakash Rai
Hon'ble Saumitra Dayal Singh,J.
- Heard Sri Sudarshan Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner; Sri A.K.S. Parihar, learned counsel for the Board and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.
- Challenge has been raised to the order dated 10.01.2022 passed by the Secretary, U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board. By that order, the said authority has rejected the representations dated 01.11.2021 and 24.12.2021 filed by the petitioner as enabled by earlier order of this Court in Sonal Singh Vs. State of U.P. & 3 Ors. (Writ - A No. 16777 of 2021) , decided on 21.12.2021. Thus, the petitioner's objection to the correctness of the answer responses to Question Nos. 11, 45 and 56 of Booklet Series C at the TGT Examination 2021, has been rejected.
- Learned counsel for the petitioner would contend, enabled by the direction issued by the writ Court in the earlier leg of litigation namely Writ - A No. 16777 of 2021, the petitioner's objection (to the correctness of the above described responses) should have been considered on merits. The Board has neither offered such consideration nor any expert material has been referred or relied upon for the purpose of rejection of the objection thus raised.
Issues for consideration
2 issues framed by the court
Whether the petitioner acquired an independent right to raise fresh objections after the expiry of the time window prescribed for filing objections to the answer key.
Whether the writ petition is barred by the doctrine of laches due to undue delay in approaching the court after the selection process was concluded.
Parties & counsel
- petitioner
Sonal Singh
- respondent
State Of U.P.
Coram
Saumitra Dayal Singh
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
- Court
- Allahabad HC
- Decided on
- · December
- Registered
- Case no.
- WRIA/2236/2022
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