Supreme Court allows a week to school to respond on plea class X students plea against school denying to show detailed score card and answer sheets
The Supreme Court on Monday has deferred hearing in a plea filed by Central Board of Secondary Education, Class X students against school denying to provide detailed scorecard and answer sheets to conceal alleged malpractices in awarding marks to the class X students while allowing a weeks time to the School to respond.
A bench on Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice CT Ravikumar has posted the matter for final hearing on February 21, 2022.
In addition to this, the Central Board of Secondary Education has filed its counter affidavit in the plea stating that the grievance raised by the petitioners have already been addressed and the Inquiry Report was also placed before the Chairperson, Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Odisha (OSCPCR).
It was submitted that the Result Committee has uploaded the marks on the portal for class X students including the petitioner by duly following the Tabulation Policy. Whereas, the marks have been awarded as per the historical data and range provided by the CBSE as per the school reference year 2020 by duly following the Tabulation Policy.
The petitioners through Advocate Ravi Prakash had sought answer sheets and marks provided by the school in the unit test, mid-term exam, and pre-board exam through RTI from CBSE which has been forwarded to the school directing it to provide the relevant data. However, the school refused to provide answer sheets.
It is alleged that after the notification of the Evaluation Policy by CBSE, the school conducted a Zoom meeting and asked the students to take admission in Class XI in their school and suggested the option of re-writing of answer sheets to get better scores.
The plea has submitted that the students who agreed to the school and took admissions in the same school were awarded very good marks, however, the ones who denied taking admission in class XI, their marks have been arbitrarily and illegally deducted.
It has been submitted that the present case is a glaring example of which shows how corrupt educational institutions played with the education system and used the pandemic as an opportunity for unjust enrichment.
Case Title: Subhasish Behera and Ors. Vs. Central Board of Secondary Education and Ors.