Sandeep Kumar v. Union of India and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP-6967-2019 (O&M); Sandeep Kumar v. Union of India and Others; High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh; decided 26.08.2025 by Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi (oral) with Justice Vikas Suri; challenge to CAT Chandigarh Bench order dated 19.02.2019; re-evaluation of written examination answer sheets; promotions from group 'C' to group 'B'; Assistant Engineer; relative merit list; independent agency; no provision for re-evaluation; perverseness on fact or law as threshold for interference; petition dismissed; pending applications disposed.
What did the court decide?
No re-evaluation of the written examination can be undertaken in the absence of any provision for re-evaluation of the answer sheets, and not merely on the apprehension that the petitioner was awarded less marks; learned counsel for the petitioner could not show any such provision.