Green Gene Enviro Protection And ... vs The State Of Maharashtra, Through Its ...

Case Significance

Green Gene Enviro Protection And ... vs The State Of Maharashtra, Through Its... is a Bombay High Court decision dated December 24, 2025 (citation: ik-106301227). Four candidates who narrowly missed the cut-off in a competitive MPSC examination sought re-evaluation of their answer-books, alleging errors in marking. Following the Supreme Court's approach in Tirtha Sarathi Mukherjee, the Bombay High Court permitted the petitioners to peruse their answer-books only for the limited purpose of identifying instances where correct answers received no marks or were marked as wrong, with any doubt to be resolved in favour of the examining body. The bench comprised Justices Gautam A. Ankhad and Shree Chandrashekhar. The judgment was delivered by Justice Shree Chandrashekhar. Counsel appearing: Abhijeet Desai (counsel for petitioner), Ashutosh M. Kulkarni (counsel for respondent), Milind Sathe (counsel for respondent), Mohini A. Rehpade (counsel for petitioner), O.A. Chandurkar (counsel for respondent), Rahul Nerlekar (counsel for respondent).