Bench raps CBSE for irregularities
Supreme Court of India
New Delhi: Reconducting the All India Pre-Medical Test examination, which saw large scale irregularities like leakage of answer keys, would be the “last resort”, the Supreme Court said on Thursday and asked the Haryana police to track down the beneficiaries. “We are sitting with an open mind. We will decide it... So far as conducting re-examination is concerned, it is the last resort only,” a vacation bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and U.U. Lalit said without ruling out re-conduct of AIPMT as demanded by some parents.
During the hearing, it also observed “why should six lakh people be asked to take up the examination all over again and we should try to find out the number of beneficiaries.” The court asked the SIT of the Haryana police to trace out the actual numbers of beneficiaries of alleged irregularities in the test so that “wheat can be separated from chaff”.
Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, appearing for the CBSE, said, “Let us not magnify the problem and we should focus on the real issue.” Expressing unhappiness over the irregularities, the bench said “You (CBSE) will have to put jammers and everything in place. You just imagine the level of frustration among the students.” “Law breakers are always ahead of lawmakers,” the ASG said. So far, six persons have been arrested till date, submitted Haryana Police.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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