The Tripura High Court has directed the Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura (TRBT) to award one additional mark to a T-TET 2024 Paper-I candidate after finding that the Board could not depart from an answer it had earlier accepted in its final answer key.
Justice Biswajit Palit was hearing a petition filed by Rupak Majumder, who had secured 89 marks in T-TET 2024 Paper-I, one mark below the 90-mark qualifying threshold. The dispute concerned Question No. 9, which asked the meaning of the “Anarchic theory of intelligence.” The petitioner had selected “Group factor theory”, but TRBT did not award him the mark.
Background
The petitioner pointed out that a substantially similar question had appeared in T-TET 2022. In that examination, TRBT’s final answer key had treated “Group factor theory” as the correct answer. No subsequent notification was issued declaring that answer incorrect.
TRBT, however, maintained that for the 2024 examination the correct answer was “None of the above.” The Board also relied on a three-member Expert Committee, which had considered the petitioner’s representation and reached that conclusion. TRBT further argued that the petitioner had not challenged the disputed question when objections to the tentative answer key were invited.
Justice Biswajit Palit noted that TRBT had itself accepted the petitioner’s chosen answer as correct in the 2022 final answer key and had made selections on that basis. The Court found that the Board could not subsequently adopt a contrary position without sufficient basis.
The Court observed:
“It appears that the action of the respondents was arbitrary and not permissible in the eye of law because by their action the respondents are estopped from taking any further plea that the petitioner is not entitled to get any relief in this writ petition because the TRBT at this stage cannot take any different step deviating from their earlier statement made in the final answer keys.”
The Court also relied on its earlier judgment in WP(C) No. 699 of 2025, concerning the same disputed answer, where the Court had found that the authorities had not adequately explained the departure from the 2022 final answer key.
The High Court allowed the writ petition and directed the respondents to award one additional mark to the petitioner in the T-TET 2024 Paper-I result within two months. The Board was further directed to declare his result afresh.
The Court ordered:
“The respondents are asked to give one more additional mark to the present petitioner in the result of T-TET, Paper-I, 2024 examination within a period of two months, from the date of passing of this judgment and thereafter to declare the result of the petitioner afresh accordingly.”
Case Details
Case Title: Rupak Majumder v. The State of Tripura & Ors.
Case Number: WP(C) No. 262 of 2026
Judge: Justice Biswajit Palit
Decision Date: 24 September 2026
