Earlier, another plea was filed in the apex court by Shakarpur resident Reepak Kansal, challenging the decision of the CBSE to cancel and re-conduct examinations over suspicion of alleged question paper leak.
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a batch of petitions challenging the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) decision to re-conduct class 10 Mathematics and class 12 Economics examination in the wake of reports of paper leaks.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said since many petitions have been filed on the same issue, it would list them all for hearing on April 4.
The board, on March 30, had announced that it would re-conduct the examination for class 12 Economics subject throughout the country on April 25. However, amid the ongoing turmoil over the paper leaks, the board on Tuesday decided not to hold a re-examination for the class 10 Maths exam. Earlier, the board had said that a fresh test for class 10 Mathematics paper may be held only in Delhi-NCR and Haryana.
"Consequent to the preliminary evaluation of the impact of reportedly leaked CBSE class 10 maths paper and keeping in mind the paramount interest of students, CBSE has decided not to conduct re-examination even in the states of Delhi NCR and Haryana," said Anil Swarup, Secretary, HRD Ministry.
The counsel, representing Kerala-based 15-year-old Rohan Mathew, sought urgent hearing of the plea by the top court challenging the decision to re-conduct the examination. Mathew and two others have moved the top court seeking quashing of the CBSE's decision to re-conduct the class 10 Mathematics examination on several grounds including violation of their fundamental rights.
Earlier, another plea was filed in the apex court by Shakarpur resident Reepak Kansal, challenging the decision of the CBSE to cancel and re-conduct examinations over suspicion of alleged question paper leak.
"It is to be noted that this year, 16,38,428 students are appearing for the Class 10 and 11,86,306 students for Class 12 in the CBSE examinations.
"And therefore, to penalise the student community for an incident which is under investigation and without completion of that investigation/enquiry and issuing a notice on March 28, 2018 (for re-exams), affects the fundamental rights of students which is arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional," the plea has said.
The examinations for the class 10 Mathematics and class 12 Economic papers were held on March 28 and March 26 respectively.
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