The Supreme Court on Monday extended the stay on declaration of results of the CBSE’s All India Pre-Medical Test till June 12, when the court may take a call on pleas seeking re-conduct of the test following alleged irregularities in the May 3 examination.
A vacation bench of Justices R.K. Agrawal and Amitava Roy granted the time after the CBSE sought listing of the matter for Friday. “The matter will be heard on Friday (June 12),” the bench said.
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.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was to declare the results of the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT), taken by over six lakh students, on June 5.
“We are fully aware of all this. 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 examination,” it had said, adding that it does want to take a decision “in haste”
At the outset, the counsel for Haryana police had told the court that so far 12 persons have been arrested in the case and 25 students have been identified as beneficiaries of the alleged racket.
One of the police officers had told the bench that there are two students among the arrested persons and students of at least ten states were involved in it.
The police, however, had expressed inability in getting the exact details of beneficiaries on the ground that SIM cards, used in passing on question papers and the answer keys, were procured by using fake and forged ID cards.
Large-scale irregularities including leakage of answer keys for this year’s AIMPT exam came to the light on the exam day, with the investigators informing the court that the answer keys of 123 questions were transmitted through 75 mobile phones in states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Haryana.
