Providing relief to an IIT aspirant, who has not cleared even one paper in her CBSE Class XII examinations, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Board to recheck her papers and issue fresh results within five days.

Livleen Kaur (17), who cleared the IIT-JEE main paper and obtained an all India rank of 926, approached the court after the Central Board of Secondary Education results for Class XII exams showed her as having failed in every paper. In the results declared on Monday, Livleen had obtained only 2 marks in physics theory, 14 in chemistry and 7 each in mathematics and biology. Incidentally, she is shown to have obtained 29 marks out of 30 in her physics practical exam, and 30 out of 30 in the chemistry and biology practicals.

"The respondent, with regard to the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, i.e. the marks secured by her in practicals and the corresponding marks obtained in her theory exams, would recheck the papers of the petitioner by June 5, 2013," the court of Justice G S Sistani ordered.

"The results of the rechecking will be informed to the petitioner by email or any other swift mode" the court directed, after noting that delay in the results would affect her counselling session.

Kaur, who has been a high-ranking student at the Kulachi Hansraj Model School in Ashok Vihar, is due to attend counseling for IIT admission on June 7.

Kaur's father Gurdeep Singh said the family approached the High Court after CBSE officials informed them that the application for revaluation or rechecking of papers would take at least a month. "She has to go for IIT counselling. With the incorrect results, she would be ineligible for an admission in IIT," Gurdeep Singh said.

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