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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a batch of petitions challenging the CBSE’s decision to re-conduct Mathematics and the Economics examination for Class 10 and 12 respectively after the question papers were allegedly leaked.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said since many petitions have been filed on the same issue, it would list them all for hearing on April 4.
Separately, the Delhi High Court on Monday asked the CBSE about its plans, if any, to re-conduct the class 10 Maths test.
The counsel, representing Kerala-based 15-year-old Rohan Mathew, sought urgent hearing of the plea by the top court challenging the decision to re-conduct the examination.
Besides seeking an independent probe into the leak, the student has also sought a direction to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to declare the results on the basis of the examinations already conducted.
The CBSE, on March 30, had announced that it would re-conduct the examination for Economics for Class 12 throughout the country on April 25.
The Board also said that a fresh test for Class 10 Mathematics paper may be held only in Delhi, NCR and Haryana.
Mathew and two others have moved the top court seeking quashing of the CBSE’s decision to re-conduct the Class 10 Mathematics examination on several grounds including violation of their fundamental rights.
Earlier, another plea was filed in the apex court by one Reepak Kansal, a resident of Shakarpur here, challenging the decision of the CBSE to cancel and re-conduct examinations of Economics of Class 12 and Mathematics paper of Class 10 over suspicion of alleged question paper leak.
