In Brief
A candidate who applied for appointment to the Tripura Judicial Service was declared unqualified in the main examination. He filed a writ petition seeking re-evaluation of his answer papers, which was dismissed. After the Supreme Court dismissed his special leave petition, he filed a review petition years later, which the High Court allowed and directed re-evaluation. The Supreme Court held that although there is no statutory provision for re-evaluation, courts possess constitutional power under Article 226 to intervene in rare and exceptional cases of grave injustice. However, the Court held that the review petition, filed five years after the main judgment with subsequent supervening developments, should not have been entertained. The appeal was allowed and the review petition dismissed.
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