Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the high court on Friday sent an answer script of a madrasa teacher job aspirant to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in New Delhi to find out whether an answer had been tampered with after the eligibility test conducted by the state madrasa board in January 2021.
The order followed a petition by Abdul Hamid alleging that his answer to one of the questions in the eligibility test had been tampered with by the examiners.
Moving a petition on behalf of the candidate, his counsel claimed that the client had put tick marks on options A and B for an objective question.
“After the publication of the result, my client found that he was not selected as a candidate because he had got 1 mark less. My client applied to be able to view his answer script. When he was handed the answer script, he found that another tick mark was put in the option C,” the lawyer alleged.
Hearing the plea, Justice Gangopadhyay asked the board to send the answer script to CFSL to find out by August 31 if the ink used to put a tick mark on option C matched the ink used in marking options A and B.
The judge asked CFSL to file its preliminary report by September 15.