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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 16045 of 2026 Court No. - 6 HON'BLE SIDDHARTH NANDAN, J.
1. Heard Sri Vaibhav Mishra, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, Sri K. Shahi, learned Advocate appearing for the Commission and learned Standing Counsel for the State respondents. 2. The present writ petition has been filed with the following prayer:-
"(1) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Certiorari quashing the impugned/final answer key dated 28.07.2026, insofar as it relates to Question No. 96 of the final answer provided for the TGT (Sanskrit) Examination conducted for recruitment to the post of Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Sanskrit as well as the Revised Final Result dated 26.08.2026; (II) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondent authorities to treat Option "C (Three)" as the correct answer to Question No.96 of the Final Answer Key and to accordingly award the marks prescribed for the said question to the petitioners who had correctly answered the said question; Issue any other writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstance of the present case; (III) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondent authorities to consider the candidature of the petitioners for selection and appointment to the post of Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) on the basis of their revised marks and merit, and, if upon such revision the petitioners fall within the zone of selection, to accord them all consequential benefits in accordance with law."
3. It has been informed by Sri K. Shahi, learned Advocate appearing for the Commission, that the Expert Committee was constituted pursuant to the order dated 14.08.2026 passed in Writ-A No. 12062 of 2026, Bhuwaneshwar Prasad Pandey vs. State of U.P. and another. The Expert Committee has already submitted its report, and after revising the result, the notification was issued on 26.08.2026. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Indra Bahadur Singh, Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Vaibhav Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Kushmondeya Shahi Sheelu And 7 Others .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s)
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He further places reliance on a decision of this Court dated 24.08.2026 passed by a co-ordinate Bench of Lucknow in Writ-A No.7693 of 2026 (Praveen Kumar vs. State of U.P. and others), by way of which a similar claim was rejected; holding that the Court cannot further sit as an expert declaring questions to be incorrect or being out of syllabus; when now an Expert Committee has further given the report and declared the result. 5. In view of the aforesaid, no relief can be granted at this stage, as the petitioners' result has already been revised on the basis of the report of the Expert Committee. 6. Accordingly, the writ petition is consigned to record. October 1, 2026 piyush WRIA No. 16045 of 2026 2 (Siddharth Nandan,J.) Digitally signed by :- PIYUSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad