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This Court has already recorded that the system of evaluation adopted in the facts of the case is patently arbitrary and unreasonable. Therefore, the petitioners, who have participated in the process of selection, have a right to challenge the result prepared on the basis of such wrongful and arbitrary evaluation of the computer test answer sheets.

The challenge to the locus of petitioners to question the select list on the ground that they could not achieve the minimum marks fixed for being selected is also without substance. The awarding of the marks to the individual candidates itself is based on a norm which has been found by this Court to be patently arbitrary. Therefore, the result prepared on that basis which reflects that petitioner had achieved marks less than the minimum also stands vitiated for being arbitrary.