NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh to accommodate two candidates for the post of Law Officer by creating a supernumerary post after finding that the answers of both to a disputed constitutional law question in the recruitment examination could be considered correct.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra was hearing an appeal filed by Charan Preet Singh challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment which had favoured another candidate, Amit Kumar Sharma, in a dispute over the answer to a multiple-choice question in the written test.
The controversy centred on Question No.73 in the examination, which asked: “Which of the following Schedules of the Constitution is immune from judicial review on the grounds of violation of fundamental rights?"
While the recruiting body treated “Ninth Schedule” as the correct answer, Sharma had marked “None of the above” and was penalised with negative marking, affecting his overall merit.