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however, the applicants filed a supplementatv affidavit in continuation to the O.A., which also forms part of the pleadings. In their supplementaTy affidavit, the applicants have further submitted that they have obtained certain information on -
allotment of normalised marks which was never disclosed in the Employment Notification and that there was no transparency in the said process of recruitment.
L 5 o.a. 350.699.204 mLt following grounds have been advanced in the application:

According to the Id. Counsel for the applicants, as neither the principle of normalisation of marks nor a 5th category of aptitude test had been disclosed in the recruitment notice, the respondents cannot adopt such arbitrariness in the selection process by changing the criteria after the selection process has been notified.

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6 o.a. 350.699.2014 / in support1 the Ld. Counsel for the applicants has furnished judgments of the Hon'ble Apex Court in (i)Tej Prakash Pathak& others v. Rajasthan High Court & others. (2013) 2 SCC (L&S) 353 (ii) K. Manjusree v. State of A.P. (2008) 1 SCC (L&S) 841.

9. / That, the principle of normalisation of marks have been decided UpOfl vide Railway Board's notification dated 30.10.2007 which states as follows:-

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) New Delhi, dated: 30,10.2007 No. E(RRB)/2007I25/2' The Chairmen, -
That, the final merit list in the safety category are prepared by adding the marks obtained by the candidates in written examination and aptitude test, wherein the ratio of marks obtained in the written examination and aptitude test is 8 0.3. 350.699.2014, 70:30. Thus the normalised marks obtained by a candidate in the written examination are converted out of 70 and total marks obtained in Aptitude test is converted out of 30, so that final marks are achieve.d against a total of 100.