IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.12725 of 2010 1. Chiranjiv Pandey S/o Gopichand Pandey, resident of House No.61, Nehru Nagar, Road No.1, Patna, P.O. + P.S. Patliputra Colony, At and District Patna. 2. Ashutosh Kumar, S/o (Late) Vishwanath Thakur, resident of Gram Barhari, P.O. & P.S. Barhara Kothi, District Purnea. 3. Manoj Kumar Choudhary, S/o Ram Awatar Mandal, resident of Village Chakballi, P.O. Noorpur, District Begusarai. 4. Ashutosh Kumar, S/o Late Parmanand Singh, resident of Bilaspur, P.O. Bhikhampur, P.S. Bhagwanpur Hat, District Siwan. 5. Purushotam Sharma S/o Raghubansh Sharma, resident of Village Bhauti, P.O. Ghinguri, P.S. Panthu, District Aurangabad……………………………….……..Petitioners Versus 1. The State Of Bihar, through Commissioner-cum- Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. The Chairman, Bihar Public Service Commission, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Patna. 3. The Bihar Public Service Commission, through its Secretary, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Patna…...............................Respondents ----------- For Petitioners: Dr. Amar Nath Singh & Mr. Arbind Kumar, Advocates For the State: Asst. Counsel to G.P. No.18. 2 20.01.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned counsel for the respondents. Prayer of the petitioners in this writ application is for quashing the entire result of 48th-52nd Combined Competitive (Mains) Examination held by the Bihar Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as “the BPSC”) pursuant to Advertisement No.4 of 2007. 2 Learned counsel for the BPSC informs that results have been published, recommendations have been made and on the basis of the same, appointment letters have been issued to all the successful candidates who have joined their respective posts. In the circumstances, the prayer of the petitioners is stale one and cannot be allowed. However, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the BPSC has not adopted the pattern of Union Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as “the UPSC”) for evaluation of answer sheet of the examinees. He submits that the next examination is going to be held in this year and the BPSC should adopt the procedure of the UPSC which they have agreed to adopt earlier before this Court as well as before the Supreme Court. It is needless to say that the pattern which BPSC agreed to adopt for evaluation of the answer sheet of the candidates before this Court and before the Supreme Court should be followed by the BPSC. In other words, BPSC should adopt the method of 3 evaluation of the answer sheet which is applicable to it for evaluation of the answer sheet of the candidates appearing in the examinations to be held by the BPSC. The writ application is disposed of with the aforesaid observations and directions. BT (J. N. Singh, J.)