R.Kanagasundari v. The Teachers Recruitment Board,
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 05.02.2025
CORAM:
THE HONOURABLE MRS. JUSTICE V.BHAVANI SUBBAROYAN W.P.No.12695 of 2023 R. Kanagasundari .. Petitioner
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1.The Teachers Recruitment Board, Rep by its Chairman, DPI Campus, College Road,Chennai - 600 006.
2. The Expert Committee, Rep by its Chairman, DPI Campus, College Road, Chennai - 600 006.
...Respondents
Prayer: This petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the Respondents to award marks to the petitioner in respect of Master Question No.55 for the examination undergone by the petitioner on 06.02.2023 ( 2nd Batch AN) in Tamil Nadu Teachers Eligibility Test in Paper -II Language - I; Tamil pursuant to Advertisement No.01/2022 dated 07.03.2022 and pass orders. 1/5
For Petitioner : Mr.U.Gowri Shankar For Respondents : Mr.R. Neelakandan, AAG Assisted by Mr.R.Siddharth, Government Advocate
ORDER
This writ petition is filed seeking to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the Respondents to award marks to the petitioner in respect of Master Question No.55 for the examination undergone by the petitioner on 06.02.2023 ( 2nd Batch AN) in Tamil Nadu Teachers Eligibility Test in Paper -II Language - I; Tamil pursuant to Advertisement No.01/2022 dated 07.03.2022 and pass orders.
2. The learned Government Advocate appearing for the respondent submitted that the issue has already been dealt in a batch of writ petitions in W.P.No.11303,12989,15627,15603,22132,22134 of 2023 wherein this Court vide order dated 12.03.2024 dismissed the writ petitions and the relevant portion is extracted hereunder:
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12. In the present cases, as per notification dated 07.03.2022, the candidates must secure 60% and above to qualify in the Teacher Eligibility Test. However, the relaxation of 5 marks will be given to BC, BC(M), MBC/DNC, SC, SC(A),ST and persons with disability candidates. Therefore, the qualifying marks for paper II in respect of category other than OC is 82 marks. All the petitioners had secured only 81 marks. Therefore, they were not qualified in Tamilnadu Teacher Eligibility Test paper-II. After thorough scrutiny, the revised and final answer key have been arrived by the experts. Subject experts opinion is final and further representations on key answers will not be entertained by the second respondent and the entire process has attained finality. Therefore, the Judgments cited by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners are not helpful to the case on hand
13. In view of the above, all the writ petitions are devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, all the writ petitions are dismissed. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petitions are closed. There shall be no order as to costs.
3. On the above Judgment it is made clear that after thorough scrutiny, the revised and final answer key have been arrived by the experts. Subject experts opinion is final and further representations on 3/5
key answers will not be entertained and the entire process has attained finality. Hence, the issue involved in this writ petition pertains to the awarding marks has been answered accordingly.
4. In view of the above facts, it is made clear that the contentions of the petitioner is devoid of merits and the same cannot be accepted by this Court. Hence, this petition deserves to be dismissed. Accordingly this petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. 05.02.2025 Speaking order : Yes/No Index : Yes/No smn To.
1.The Chairman, Teachers Recruitment Board, DPI Campus, College Road,Chennai - 600 006.
2. The Expert Committee, Rep by its Chairman, DPI Campus, College Road, Chennai - 600 006.
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V.BHAVANI SUBBAROYAN, J.
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