HC asks UPSC to disclose civil services prelims marks

A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw gave the ruling, dismissing UPSC's appeal against a single judge order to disclose the marks, albeit only of successful candidates in the 2010 preliminary exam.

The bench directed for disclosure of marks of all candidates including unsuccessful ones.

The bench asked UPSC to make public the marks within eight weeks, saying, "An examinee is entitled to satisfy himself/ herself as to the fairness and transparency of the examination and the selection procedure and to maintain such fairness and transparency disclosure of raw marks, cut-off marks and the scaling method adopted is a must.

"We are even otherwise of the view that there could be no secrecy or confidentiality about the method of scaling/ actualisation adopted by an examiner. The very objective of the RTI Act is transparency and accountability. The counsel for the UPSC has been unable to show as to how the disclosure of the scaling/ actualisation method prejudices the examination or affects it competitiveness," the bench also said. (More)