HC directs re-computing of Delhi Judicial Services exam results and publish them on Friday

The Delhi High Court has accepted the challenge to nine out of 15 questions asked in the Delhi Judicial Services (Preliminary) examinations and directed the Registrar General to re-compute and publish the updated result by October 4.

The court said apart from placing the list of additional eligible candidates on the website by 6 pm on Friday, the high court administration will communicate them by both SMS and e-mail of being qualified for writing the Mains exam.

The court was hearing a batch of petitions by law graduates aspiring to be judicial officers, challenging the correctness of the answer keys to some of the questions in the Delhi Judicial Services (Preliminary) Exams which was held on September 22.

A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Talwant Singh declined the prayer of the petitioners to postpone the date of Mains exams, that is, October 12-13, as the high court has to adhere to the deadline given by it to the Supreme Court.

"In other words it is clarified that even the ...