without any negative marking, it is not possible for any candidate to secure 82.5 marks. Therefore, taking into consideration the analogy of impossibility to secure 82.5 marks as much as after taking into consideration the letter of NCTE dated 10.01.2014 which was followed by other State Governments in State of Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh as also the rule of rounding off in respect of reserved category candidates had also been adopted by the CBSE Board as well, it was held that candidates belonging to reserve category may be declared pass in REET-2022 on scoring 82 marks. In that peculiar facts and circumstances, due to anomaly of impossibility to secure 82.5 marks, method of rule of rounding off marks was allowed to be applied, in concurrence to the view of the NCTE as well as following the rational logic applied by the CBSE Board and other State Boards whereas the case of present writ petitioners is concerned, the analogy of securing the impossibility to secure 60% minimum marks that comes to 90 marks out of 150 marks, does not come in play, therefore, writ petitioners cannot be allowed to claim equity and parity to follow the rule of rounding off marks as has been followed in case of candidates belonging to reserve categories of SC, ST, OBC, MBC and EWS who are required to score minimum 55% marks only. Thus, writ petitioners who belong to general category and are required to score minimum 60% marks to pass REET-2022, stand on entirely different footing and the present writ petitions are clearly distinguishable from the case of writ petitioners in Rajesh Kumar Yadav ( supra ) and other connected matters.
