Asks for court-monitored probe

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the CBSE paper leaks saying that students and parents apprehend that the agencies investigating the case are “not serious”.

The petition, filed by Delhi-based NGO Social Jurist, has further sought direction to CBSE to consider giving “liberal marks” to students who will be re-appearing in the examination.

The plea came a day after 15-year-old Rohan Mathew moved the Supreme Court with a petition to quash the decision of the CBSE to hold re-examination of Class 10 mathematics papers following reports of the leak of question papers.

Advocate Ashok Agarwal, on behalf of the NGO, said he has also sought a direction to the CBSE to hold re-examination of the Class 10 maths paper in April.

Mr. Agarwal said that “irreparable loss and injury” has already been cause to over 28 lakh students who had appeared for the Class 10 and Class 12 examination.

He said the government as well as the CBSE have not come up with any decision to compensate the students who have suffered due to their fault.

‘Widespread anger’

“There is widespread anger among students and millions of parents. The students are holding demonstration and dharnas in front of the CBSE HQ and HRD ministry,” the petition said, adding: “They are demanding action against erring CBSE officials, including its chairman”.

The CBSE had announced that Class 12 economics paper re-test will be held on April 25, while the Class 10 mathematics paper re-test, if required, would be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and Haryana in July.