The Punjab & Haryana High Court recently dismissed an appeal challenging the answer key of a clerk post exam held by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC), observing that the court is not required to examine the correctness of the expert opinion.
Given that the advertisement was issued in 2015, the revised final key was released in 2018, and the results were already declared, a division bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha and Justice Arun Palli stated, “In such circumstances, we do not find that taking up the issue by this Court at this stage would serve any meaningful purpose.”
The bench was hearing an appeal filed by one Monu against a single-judge bench’s dismissal of a writ petition. The petition was dismissed on the grounds that the matter had already been “examined by an expert committee” and that the “Court cannot sit over the same” and express any contrary opinion.
The division bench stated in Rishal and others Vs Rajasthan Public Service Commission and others (2018) 8 SCC 81 that “the Court is not required to examine the correctness of the expert opinion.”
