Allahabad High Court
ROHIT BABU ANOTHERversusUTTAR PRADESH SUBORDINATE SERVICE SELECTION COMMISSION
- Decided
- Bench
- PRAKASH PADIA
Holding
The writ petition is not pressed and is dismissed, with liberty to file a fresh petition.
Summary
The petitioners challenged the final answer key dated 30‑08‑2025 issued by the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission, alleging arbitrariness in questions 26, 79 and 84 and seeking its quashing and mandamus for full marks. The respondents contended that one of the petitioners had participated in a typing test whose result was declared later and that this fact was deliberately omitted. The Court examined whether the writ petition was pressed, i.e., whether the petitioners had exhausted the remedy of filing a fresh petition. Finding that the petition was not pressed and that the omission raised a question of maintainability, the Court dismissed the writ. The judgment also granted liberty to the petitioners to file a fresh writ petition.
Issues considered
- Whether the writ petition is pressed and maintainable
- Whether the answer key can be quashed and mandamus granted for full marks
Subjects
- writ petition
- maintainability
- pressing
- certiorari
- mandamus
- answer key
- UPSSSC
- civil procedure
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
WRIT - A No. - 6656 of 2026
Rohit Babu Another
.....Petitioner(s)
Versus
Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection
Commission .....Respondent(s)
Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Mohd Mohiuddin Siddiqui
Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Siddharth Singhal
Court No. - 6
HON'BLE PRAKASH PADIA, J.
1.The petitioner has preferred present writ petition inter-alia with the
following prayer :-
"A. A writ order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the
impugned final answer key dated 30.08.2025 (annexure no.5) issued by the
Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Service Selection Commission (UPSSSC), insofar
as it relates to questions nos. 26,79 and 84 of Booklet series DG3 as being
arbitrary, erroneous, and contrary to authoritative academic sources.
B. A writ order of direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the
respondents to award full marks for questions nos. 26,79 and 84 of Booklet
series DG3 to the petitioners, and to re-evaluate their answer sheet of the
combined Junior Assistant Junior Clerk, and Assistant Level III mains
examination (PA 03.07.2022) held 29.06.2025 and 13.12.2025 accordingly."
2. It is argued by Sri Siddharth Singhal, learned counsel for the
respondents that though petitioner no.2 has participated in the
typing test on 13.12.2025 results of which was declared on
26.02.2026 but this fact has deliberately and willfully not disclosed
by the petitioner no.2 in the present writ petition.
3. At this point of time, a prayer has been made by counsel for the
petitioner to dismiss present writ petition as not pressed with liberty to
file fresh writ petition.
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4. Taking a lenient view, the writ petition is dismissed as not pressed
with liberty as prayed.
(Prakash Padia,J.)
May 5, 2026
Pramod Tripathi
Digitally signed by :-
PRAMOD TRIPATHI
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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