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UPSC CSE Prelims 2023 Highlights: HC grants two weeks to UPSC to file response
UPSC Civil Services Prelims Exam 2023, HC Hearing Highlights: Justice Chandra Dhari Singh has posted the matter for hearing after three weeks.
UPSC Civil Services Prelims Exam 2023, HC Hearing Highlights: The Delhi High court on Monday granted two weeks to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to file it's response to a plea challenging the Civil Services Preliminary Examination, 2023. Justice Chandra Dhari Singh posted the matter for hearing after three weeks after the UPSC counsel raised objections on the maintainability of the petition and sought time to file a detailed response....Read More
Filed by 17 Civil Services aspirants, the petition sought the High Court’s direction to UPSC to scrap the CSE Prelims examination 2023 and re conduct it. The matter has come up before a vacation bench of Justice Manoj Jain.
The petitioners, through advocate Rajeev Kumar Dubey, have said that they were aggrieved by the "arbitrariness" of the commission in conducting the entire recruitment cycle.
The plea has also challenged the UPSC press note dated June 12 regarding results of the Preliminary exam and requested publication of the answer key.
Follow this live blog for updates on Delhi HC hearing of the UPSC Civil Services Prelims exam 2023 case.
(With inputs from Richa Banka)
UPSC CSE Prelims 2023: Next hearing after 3 weeks
Justice Chandra Dhari Singh posted the matter for hearing after three weeks after the UPSC counsel raised objections on the maintainability of the petition and sought time to file a detailed response.
UPSC CSE 2023 Prelims: What does petition says
The plea has said that they were aggrieved by the "arbitrariness" of the commission in conducting the entire recruitment cycle. The petition has also challenged the UPSC press note dated June 12 regarding the results of the Preliminary exam and requested the publication of the answer key.
Delhi HC grants two weeks to UPSC to file response
The Delhi High Court on Monday granted two weeks to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to file its response on a plea by 17 civil service aspirants seeking quashing of theCivil Services Preliminary Examination, 2023, and for re-conducting the preliminary test.
With inputs from Richa Banka
Almost all PSCs provide answer keys: Petitioners
The petition said almost all state Public Service Commissions and other authorities like the High Court of Delhi in respect of Delhi Judicial Service Examination, IITs, NLUs and IIMs release the provisional answer key within a week of the conduct of an examination and invite objections from the candidates. They then release the final answer key by modifying their provisional answer key based on the objections, it added.
(PTI)
UPSC CSE 2023 Prelims: What petitioners said about answer key
The plea has also challenged the UPSC press note dated June 12 regarding results of the Preliminary exam and requested publication of the answer key.
The petitioners had submitted that by not providing the answer key and not considering their representations, the commission has defied “all principles of fairness, logic and rationality.”
However, it should be mentioned that in the Prelims result press release, UPSC said answer keys and cut-off marks of the CSE Prelims exam will be shared after the entire process of the exam is over (after final results).
UPSC CSE Prelims HC hearing: What happened previously
During the previous hearing, advocate Naresh Kaushik, appearing for the UPSC, objected to the partition saying the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) was the competent forum for hearing the matter.
Delhi HC hearing of UPSC Civil Services Exam 2023 today
The Delhi HC is going to take up the matter of the Civil Services Prelims exam today. Seventeen aspirants have asked for scrapping the exam and re-conducting it.
