Shimla, May 4 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has dismissed a plea by a civil services aspirant seeking an additional attempt to appear in the UPSC examination, citing COVID-19 disruption in 2020.
A single-judge bench of Justice Ajay Mohan Goel recently held that the petitioner, having already exhausted all permissible chances, could not be granted special relief without any valid or exceptional ground.
Petitioner Raja Ram Sahu had filed a writ petition contending that he could not prepare effectively for his last attempt in 2020 due to the pandemic.
He urged the court to direct the Union of India and UPSC to allow him another chance in the 2025 examination. He also claimed that not framing a policy for COVID-affected aspirants viola...