Law student claims she scored 499/500 in exam, moves petition. Here’s what Allahabad HC said

The university, however, re-examined her OMR sheet through a committee of law faculty and confirmed the lower score. The court accepted the university’s reassessment.

“It is advised to the petitioner to concentrate on her study so that she may get more marks by honest preparation and she may not approach this Court again,” the court said in its order.

The court noted that the petitioner had filed several matters before it in recent years and had relied on unsupported material in the current petition. “Claim of petitioner that she may get 499 marks out of 500 was based on assumption without any basis whatsoever,” the order said.

The court added that an affidavit filed by the petitioner, which purported to quote answers, had no verifiable source and did not identify which questions were allegedly marked correctly on the OMR but left unmarked by the university.

“It is well settled that in educational matters where there are expert reports or answer keys are checked by an expert committee, the High Court should remain slow in interfering,” the court said.

Earlier, the court had ordered the university to constitute a review committee comprising the head of the law department and two professors to re-examine the answer sheet. After the re-check, officials concluded the petitioner’s marks were correctly tabulated at about 181, not 499 as claimed.

The court also criticised the petitioner’s repeated filings. Between 2021 and 2022, the order noted, she had filed at least 10 petitions, including writs, review petitions and special appeals. “Only because the petitioner is appearing in person, the Court cannot extend liberty to file any documents or make any submission which has no legal basis on facts as well as on law,” the order said, noting that she failed to cite any binding precedent to support her claim.

Based on the findings, the court dismissed the petition and directed the petitioner to deposit Rs 20,000 within 15 days into the High Court Legal Services Committee’s bank account, as a measure to discourage frivolous and repetitive litigation.