The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by a candidate challenging the 2025 JEE (Main) examination results, observing that in the absence of any manifest technical error, the official records maintained by the National Testing Agency (NTA) must prevail. The petition, filed by a student named Shashank Shekhar Pandey, sought directions to review and correct alleged errors in the final answer key, extend the registration deadline for JEE Advanced 2025, and call for a transparent grievance redressal mechanism. The petitioner claimed that upon submission of his exam, a pop-up message had appeared indicating that he had attempted 46 questions and left 29 unattempted. However, when he later downloaded his response sheet, it showed only 29 attempted questions, contradicting the earlier pop-up indication.
In response, the NTA denied the petitioner’s claim, contending that their official logs demonstrated that the petitioner had indeed attempted just 29 questions and not 46. The matter was referred for forensic examination to technical experts, who supported the NTA’s version. The Court accepted the expert finding and the NTA’s explanation that an automatic submission may have occurred, thereby bypassing or replacing the pop-up summary page. The Court held that a petitioner’s personal recollection of a transitory pop-up, in absence of corroborative evidence, cannot override the official digital records. It observed that the absence of audit logs for the alleged summary page does not, on its own, justify presuming a system anomaly.
The Court was persuaded by the cogency and internal consistency of the NTA’s explanation, and found that the petitioner’s entire case depended on his memory of a pop-up message rather than verifiable logs or system data. Given that no manifest technical error was demonstrated, the Court concluded that the NTA’s maintained records must be preferred over the petitioner’s subjective claim. Accordingly, it held that no prima facie case was made out in favour of the petitioner and rejected the plea.
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