Schools Play Vital Role In Education, Must Ensure Examinee's Documentation Is Completed Within Time: Delhi HC Provides Relief To Class 10, 12 Students
Live LawThe Delhi High Court recently directed the Central Board of Secondary Education to open its online portal to accommodate 45 class 10th and 12th students studying in a Delhi school to appear in their improvement and compartmental exams. Observing that the petitioner school had been “very negligent” in the present case, a single judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said that the court cannot allow the students to “suffer loss” of an academic year. “Therefore, this Court, to ensure that in case similarly placed students are accommodated by CBSE by opening portal for a limited period for accommodating them in compliance of that Court's order or in any other manner, directs that the 45 students of the petitioner school, qua whom the present petition has been filed by the petitioner school, will also be accommodated in similar fashion and to same extent, as per the convenience of CBSE and in the manner deemed appropriate at its end, as in compliance of the orders of the High Court of Rajasthan,” Justice Sharma said in its July 12 order. At this stage, the counsel appearing for the petitioner school undertook that if the CBSE succeeds before the Division Bench of Rajasthan HC and the single judge bench's decision is set aside or stayed, “the petitioner-school will not object to denial of the opportunity to its students to appear in these examinations, and will not agitate the matter further as this order does not create a right in their favour”. The order noted that while the Court was not initially inclined to grant relief to the school, the order passed by the Rajasthan High Court in a similar matter was brought to Justice Sharma's notice, and persuaded her to grant relief to the 45 students in the present case.