State Of U.P. & Anr vs Pawan Kumar Tiwari & Ors on 4 January, 2005
10. No doubt, Medical Council of India Regulations
does not speak about awarding any grace marks. It only
speaks about percentage of marks. Therefore, if the
percentage is taken into consideration, the petitioner has got
49.66% and the fraction obtained by the petitioner is more
than 0.5, namely 0.66 and therefore, it should be rounded off
to the nearest round figure namely 49.66% to 50%. The
Hon'ble Supreme Court held in the case of State of U.P and
another Vs. Pawan Kumar Tiwari and others, reported in
(2005) 2 SCC 10 states that rounding off is based on logic
and common sense. If one half or more, its value shall be
increased to one and if part is less than half, then its value
should be ignored. Paragraph 7 of the Judgment is extracted
as follows:-