Supreme Court pans Andhra govt. over plan to hold Class 12 exams
The Hindu
‘Are you trying to prove you are different?’ top court asks State
The to have its Class 12 students brave the pandemic to attend exams saw the Supreme Court adopt a hard line on Thursday, saying the State will be held responsible and even be made to pay ₹1 crore as compensation in case of deaths. A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari asked the Andhra Pradesh government what it was trying to prove by risking lives when other States across the country had opted to cancel their State Board exams. “Are you trying to prove you are different? Nobody should try to prove anything here… This is about lives,” Justice Maheshwari addressed advocate Mahfooz A. Nazki, for Andhra Pradesh.More Related News