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13. Lastly, when a similar situation arose before this Court, the coordinate Bench, in the case of Jigar Bharatsinh Kshatriya (supra), observed the in paragraph 30 as under;

"30. On the contention raised by Shri Majmudar that the marking was changed the explanation in the affidavit is that of the 100 questions since 2 questions were cancelled and the total marks got reduced to 98, in order to normalise the new question paper of 98 questions proportionate changes were made in the scores of answers as well as penalties. Therefore instead of giving one mark for each correct answer the correct question was given 1.02 marks and instead of giving-0.250 marks for the wrong answer the negative marking was made- 0.255. The same process as is adopted by the Gujarat Public Services Commission and the Gujarat Subordinate Services Selection Board was adopted."