The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the Staff Selection Commission on pleas alleging discrepancies in the CGLE 2024 final answer key, potentially impacting the fairness and transparency of the recruitment process.
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DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on a petition challenging the final results of the Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGLE) 2024.
The CGLE, conducted by SSC in two tiers , Tier I and Tier II, recruits Group B and C officers for various central government ministries and departments.
In the second round of litigation, 92 candidates are excluded from the final merit list, moved the Delhi High Court, alleging a flawed and non-transparent evaluation process in the Tier-II Session-I exam, including arbitrary awarding of bonus marks.
Background
The Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGLE), conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC), is a national-level test for recruiting Group B and C officers across various government departments. In 2024, following the release of the final results for Tier-II Session-I.
92 unsuccessful candidates approached the Delhi High Court alleging serious flaws in the evaluation process. They claimed the final answer key contained discrepancies and accused the SSC of arbitrarily awarding bonus marks to all candidates without justification.
This marks the second legal challenge over the same issue; an earlier petition was disposed of in April 2025, with the High Court acknowledging prima facie discrepancies. A similar plea before the Central Administrative Tribunal was also dismissed, prompting the petitioners to file fresh writ petitions.
The petition states,
“SSC granted bonus marks indiscriminately, causing unjust enrichment of undeserving candidates and infringing upon the rights of those who answered correctly. Such a practice not only lacks legal justification but also contravenes the standards of competitive examination jurisprudence, warranting judicial interference, it is submitted in the petition.”
Earlier this year, the petitioners had filed W.P.(C) 4210/2025, which was disposed of by the Delhi High Court on April 3, 2025. While the Court then declined to launch a detailed investigation into the final answer key, it did observe that the petitioners had made a prima facie case regarding discrepancies in one or two questions of the answer key.
Following that, the matter was pursued before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), New Delhi, through an Original Application (OA). However, the Tribunal dismissed the plea, albeit with strong observations about the SSC’s conduct.
The petitioners, being dissatisfied, returned to the High Court through the current writ petitions W.P.(C) 8524/2025 and W.P.(C) 8525/2025, which is the second round litigation.
Observation of the Court
The Division Bench comprising Justice Manoj Jain and Justice Renu Bhatnagar noted that the matter required closer examination and granted time to the SSC to submit a reply within four weeks. A rejoinder, if any, is to be filed by the petitioners within two weeks thereafter.
The case has been listed before the Roster Bench on July 28, 2025 for the next hearing.
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