KCET 2024: Karnataka HC declines to interfere in expunction of out-of-syllabus questions

A bench of Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav told the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) and the state government to avoid such situations in the future.

“Such questions outside the syllabus ought not to have been asked at the first instance at all. Needless to state the apprehension of the petitioner as also of other students that such exclusion of questions has caused prejudice insofar as the candidates would have adjusted the time depending on the questions that they are in a better position to answer is an aspect that is to be taken note of appropriately in order to avoid such situations in future… The KEA and the State are required to take adequate measures to avoid such situations in future,” read the order passed on July 5.

However, the court declined to interfere. “The Court cannot enter into the aspect of validity of decisions taken by the Government based on the applicable syllabus which is the decision of the experts,” it explained.

Additional Advocate-General Vikram Huilgol stated that a committee set up to examine these questions had concluded that they were out of the syllabus and sought to justify the expunction stating that that students were aware of the syllabus.

As the petitioner had also sought directions to calculate the rank list considering the relative difficulty for CBSE and pre-University College students in clearing KCET, the court said it was a policy-level question for the government to look at.

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