SC adjourns plea seeking cancellation of CBSE, ICSE Class 12 exams, will it hear on May 31

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned to May 31 a petition seeking cancellation of Class 12 examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, reported Live Law.

A vacation bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari was hearing a public interest litigation, which was filed by advocate Mamta Sharma. The hearing was adjourned after the court noted that the petitioner has not provided an advanced copy on the standing counsel for the CBSE. The case will be taken up around 11 am on May 31.

During the brief hearing, Maheshwari noted that the CBSE will take a decision on June 1. “Please be optimistic,” the bench said, reported Bar and Bench. “There may be some resolution by Monday.”

The plea has contended that the exams should be cancelled and a methodology should be devised to declare the results within a deadline. It also said that the CBSE and ICSE notifications on postponement of the tests should be quashed as students cannot be subjected to uncertainty amid a public health crisis such as Covid-19.

“As far as the innocent students of Class12 are concerned, a step-motherly, arbitrary, inhuman direction has been issued to postpone their final examination for an unspecified duration, instead of following the directions propounded and accepted by…

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