New Delhi, May 28
Observing that the judges should not think that they “know everything”, the Supreme Court today stayed an Orissa High Court order that had raised the marks of six postgraduate medical candidates.

“Judge is not an Emperor. How can he increase marks,” a vacation Bench comprising Markandey Katju and Deepak Verma said while issuing notice and staying the high court order on a plea filed by the affected candidates.

According to counsel for the candidates Shibhashish Misra, relying on some medical literature provided by six of the 74 doctors on the merit list of the entrance examination, a single judge Bench of the high court had raised the marks in the range of 20-60.

The high court had also clarified that the revision was confined only to the six candidates, thereby closing the door of justice on other candidates, Misra said.

The six candidates had argued that the “model key answers” on the basis of which the papers were evaluated were wrong and their answers were right. Misra said if the key answers were wrong, then it was applicable to all the 74 candidates whose names figured in the merit list and that the benefit could not be restricted only to the six candidates who had approached the high court.