The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has directed University of Kashmir to pay a compensation of Rs 1 lakh to a student as “damages” for evaluating his answer sheet incorrectly in B A examination.
Observing an “illegality and arbitrariness” in the evaluation, a bench of Justice Javed Iqbal asked the varsity to pay the damages to Abdul Basit, who was shown to have failed in General English Paper for having secured 27 as against 38 pass marks in the examination of 5th Semester B A for the Session 2017- 18.
Basit in response to an application to the University obtained xerox copy of his answer sheet which revealed that one of the questions had not been evaluated and no marks thereof awarded. He applied for re-evaluation of the paper and in the wake of the process he was shown to have secured 40 marks. However, the varsity scaled down the 40 marks to 34 marks on the basis of a rule and in the process changed Basit’s result for the paper from pass to fail yet again.
In his plea, Basit sought court’s intervention for a direction to rectify the error by awarding marks to all three questions and reflect the marks in the marks sheet of his 5th-semester final examination.
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