HC orders DU to correct LLB answer key and admit student

The Delhi High Court directed Delhi University (DU) to give admission to a student, after upholding that answer key for the 2013-2014 LLB entrance examination contained a “wrong” answer.

Justice V K Jain asked DU to ‘correct’ the scores of Raj Kumar Jha and allot fresh admission after re-computation of his scores within a week.

Jha had obtained 315 marks in the test but was denied admission. However the varsity allotted seats to candidates who obtained 325 marks. Jha sought information through RTI application on perusal of the answer key. He felt that “the answers contained in the answer key for question no 94 and 110 were incorrect and the answers opted by him for the said questions were the correct answers.”  As a result, JHA appealed to the HC.

According to the HC’s ruling, “It is true that ordinarily the courts should not interfere with the answers notified by the examiners but where the court finds that the answer contained in the answer key in respect of a particular question cannot even be said one of the possible correct answers...The court would be failing in its duty if it does not correct such patently wrong answer and leaves a wronged candidate remediless, particularly when the question under consideration relates to a field of law.”