Gauhati High Court Asks APSC To Receive Petitioners’ Forms

GUWAHATI: The Gauhati High Court has asked the APSC (Assam Public Service Commission) to provisionally accept the application forms of 18 petitioners for the main examinations and ascertain the veracity of their claims that they had answered many of the questions correctly but failed to qualify at the preliminary examination due to the wrong answer keys given by the Commission.

The petitioners claim that they failed to qualify for the APSC main examination as the answer keys of a number of questions supplied by the Commission were wrong. The 18 candidates moved the High Court seeking justice.

In his order issued recently, the judge said: “This is a matter which requires examination, for which the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) has sought sometime to verify.”

The High Court, however, has ordered that since the last date for submission of forms for the main examination is June 7, 2019 and there being some intervening holidays the petitioners are allowed to submit their forms for the main examination provisionally and the APSC accepts the forms subject to payment of the requisite fees. The High Court further said that the APSC will have to make necessary verification to ascertain the veracity of the petitioners’ claim that “they had correctly answered those questions but were not awarded the marks”.

The High Court has asked the APSC to inform it about the result of the verification.

The APSC has sought 15 days to make the necessary verification of the claim of the petitioners and file an affidavit in this regard. Accordingly, the matter is listed for hearing on June 19, 2019.

Now the fate of the petitioners depends on the verification of their claims – only candidates securing the qualifying marks in the verification can sit for the main examination.

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