Covid-19 | Plea in Supreme Court to cancel CBSE Class 12 exams

It said students cannot be made to suffer uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis.

A Special Bench of the Supreme Court will hear a plea on Friday to cancel the Central Board of Secondary Education and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education exams for Class 12 students due to COVID-19. A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari is scheduled to hear a petition filed by advocate Mamta Sharma. “Issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to cancel the examination for Class 12 and devise an objective methodology to declare the result within a specific time-frame,” Ms. Sharma has urged. Ms. Sharma said the CBSE and ICSE notifications deferring the exams to an unspecified date should be quashed. It said students cannot be made to suffer uncertainty in the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.