Hyderabad: The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education on Thursday submitted to the High Court that out of 23 students who committed suicide after the announcement of results, 20 failed after re-verification and re-evaluation. Two students have already passed and one committed suicide after completion of three exams, all of which she passed.
“A total of 53 answer scripts belonging to 23 students in subjects where they failed were also re-verified by the selected regular junior lectures. It was observed that there was no change in their results. These re-verified answer scripts have also been kept in the website for downloading,” Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) secretary A. Ashok submitted a sworn affidavit.
The division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Shameem Akther was dealing with two petitions seeking re-evaluation of the answer scripts of about three lakh failed students and punishment of those responsible for the Intermediate marks fiasco in the evaluation and tallying of marks.
On May 15, the bench directed the BIE to upload all answer scripts after re-verification and re-evaluation and directed it to submit the details of how many students had been declared passed after re-evaluation.
Mr Sanjeev Kumar, special counsel for the state, submitted that after re-verifying the answer scripts of the failed candidates, 1,183 were declared to have passed.
He said about 1.8 lakh students had downloaded the 9.02 lakh answer scripts that the BIE had uploaded.
Mr Damodar Reddy, counsel for the petitioner, stated that the submissions of the special counsel were far from the truth because some students were facing hardship in downloading their answer scripts and marks memos. He asked the court to direct the BIE to place the answer scripts of the students who committed suicide due to the goof-up of the board and sought an adjournment to file a reply.
The bench, while adjourning the PIL to June 10, directed the counsel for the petitioner to file a reply to the counter filed by the BIE.
