HC seeks info on Maths retest

The Delhi high court on Monday agreed to hear a plea for a court- monitored probe into the recent leaks of the Mathematics and Economics CBSE exam papers of Class 10 and 12, respectively. The plea was mentioned before a twojudge bench of acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar which agreed to hear it.

The petition, moved by NGO Social Jurist, has sought that the Class 10 Mathematics exam be held in April, rather than July as proposed by the authorities. Apart from that, the petition filed by advocate Ashok Agarwal has sought that liberal marks be awarded to the students in the Mathematics and Economics re- examination. The court also asked the CBSE about its plans, if any, to reconduct the Class 10 Mathematics test, the question papers for which had been leaked recently. It sought information on possible reexamination for the Class 10 Mathematics paper after the CBSE said it was still ascertaining the extent of the leak before announcing the date for the fresh test.

The court put the query to the secondary and higher secondary education regulator while issuing notices to the CBSE and the Centre seeking their stands on the plea for a court- monitored probe into the recent leaks.

During the brief hearing, the bench asked the CBSE as to how could it wait till July to re- conduct the test and keep the students on “tenterhooks” till then.