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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  SC to hear CBSE plea for more time to re-conduct pre-medical test
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SC to hear CBSE plea for more time to re-conduct pre-medical test

Solicitor general Ranjit Kumar tells the apex court that it is impossible to re-conduct the exam within four weeks

The Supreme Court had on 15 June scrapped the AIPMT 2015 and had ordered re-conduct of the examination within four weeks. Photo: MintPremium
The Supreme Court had on 15 June scrapped the AIPMT 2015 and had ordered re-conduct of the examination within four weeks. Photo: Mint

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE’s) plea seeking more time to re-conduct All India Pre-Medical Test 2015, which was scrapped in view of large-scale cheating in the test.

A bench of justices R.K. Agrawal and A.M. Sapre decided to take up the CBSE petition after solicitor general Ranjit Kumar mentioned the matter before it. Kumar told the apex court that it is impossible to re-conduct the exam within the time frame decided by the Supreme Court. He said that the board was overburdened with work of conducting seven exams simultaneously and it needed at least three months time to conduct the exam afresh.

The Supreme Court had on 15 June scrapped the AIPMT 2015 and had ordered re-conduct of the examination within four weeks. The apex court had directed the re-examination in view of large-scale cheating in the test, with students being helped with answers in the examination hall through unfair means at many places.

Earlier, while reserving its order on 12 June, the court had said the examination stands vitiated even if one student is being benefited illegally. It had said that CBSE could not be held guilty as such but taking into consideration the past incidents, “CBSE ought to have been cognizant of these things".

CBSE, however, had opposed the contentions seeking cancellation of the test, saying, “630,000 students cannot be made to take the exam afresh when only 44 students have been found involved in taking benefits through unfair means."

Earlier, the vacation bench had asked Haryana Police to file a fresh report indicating the number of beneficiaries of the alleged irregularities in the pre-medical examination. It had also asked police to identify as many candidates as possible who had been benefited from the alleged leak. CBSE was to declare the results of AIPMT, taken by over 600,000 students, on 5 June. The court had said, “The bigger issue is that the sanctity of the examination is under suspicion. We want to be doubly sure that there is no alternative but to order re-conduct of the exam," adding that it did not want to take a decision “in haste".

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Published: 18 Jun 2015, 11:58 AM IST
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