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Agartala: The High Court of Tripura ordered the Teachers Recruitment Board, Tripura to grant one extra mark to candidate Rupak Majumder. Justice Biswajit Palit issued the ruling after the petitioner challenged the grading of his 2024 T-TET Paper-I exam. He initially scored 89, missing the qualification threshold by a single point.
The legal dispute focused on a question regarding the Anarchic theory of intelligence. Majumder chose group factor theory as his answer. The board gave him zero points, claiming their three-member Expert Committee decided none of the above was the correct option. Officials also noted the petitioner missed the May 2025 deadline to protest the tentative answer key.
The court rejected these arguments. Justice Palit pointed out that the same question appeared on the 2022 exam, where the board officially marked group factor theory as correct. The board never retracted that decision. The court cited the principle of estoppels to prevent the board from changing its stance to hurt a student. Citing a similar August 21, 2026 ruling, the court found the board failed to provide evidence for its new answer. Justice Palit stated, "the action of the board was not permissible in the eyes of the law."
The board must now recalculate the results for Majumder. They have two months to finish the task. Representatives for the recruitment board did not say if they will file an appeal.
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