Karnataka High Court Dismisses Appeal Challenging State Govt's Decision To Expunge 50 Out-Of-Syllabus Questions From KCET-2024
Live LawThe Karnataka High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal challenging a single judge bench order which refused to look into the validity of the State government's decision to set up a committee to examine 'out of syllabus' questions asked in the Karnataka CET 2024 exams, held in April and its finding to exclude 50 questions which were out of syllabus. The single judge bench held that questions were out of syllabus but still did not grant me the relief sought for by me,” it was submitted. The single judge had said, “The Court cannot enter into the aspect of validity of a decision taken by the Government based on the applicable syllabus which is the decision of the experts.” It had told the government and Karnataka Examination Authority not to repeat such mistakes in the future. The KEA and the State are required to take adequate measures to avoid such situations in future.” Agreeing with the state government that individual grievances may not have the effect of unsettling the entirety of the process, the court had refused to pass any direction in regards to providing higher marks to the petitioner who has studied in CBSE while calculating the rank considering the difficulty level of CBSE papers over PUC papers.