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Re-conduct AIPMT within four weeks: SC

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By Sukriti Singh

The apex court quashed the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) and ordered the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to conduct the fresh examination within four weeks.law

Large –scale irregularities were reported in the AIPMT exam conducted on May 3, 2015. Allegedly many students managed to take electronic gadgets with them to the different test centers, and answers were electronically transferred to those devices. Investigators informed the court that the answer keys of 123 questions were transmitted through 75 mobile phones in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and Haryana.

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Taking cognizance of this, a vacation bench of justices R K Agrawal and Amitava Roy held, “As it is, the system of examination pursued over the decades, has been accepted by all who are rational, responsible and sensible, to be an accredited one, for comparative evaluation of the merit and worth of candidates vying for higher academic pursuits. It is thus necessary, for all the role players in the process, to secure and sustain the confidence of the public in general and the student fraternity in particular in the system by its unquestionable trustworthiness. Such a system is endorsed because of its credibility informed with a guarantee of fairness, transparency authenticity and sanctity. There cannot be any compromise with these imperatives at any cost.”

The decision will affect more than six lakhs students who will now reappear in the AIPMT examination.

Opposing the decision, the Solicitor General said that ” 6.3 lakh students cannot be made to take the exam afresh when only 44 students have been found involved in taking benefits through unfair means.” He appeared on behalf of CBSE.

Commenting on this the court observed, “We are aware, that the abrogation of the examination would result in some inconvenience to all concerned and that same extra time would be consumed for holding a fresh examination”.

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“This, however, according to us, is the price, the stakeholders would have to suffer in order to maintain the impeccable and irrefutable sanctity and credibility of a process of examination, to assess the innate worth and capability of the participating candidates for being assigned inter se merit positions commensurate to their performance based on genuine and sincere endeavours. It is a collective challenge that all the role-players would have to meet, by rising to the occasion and fulfill the task ahead at the earliest, so as to thwart and abort the deplorable design of a mindless few seeking to highjack the process for selfish gain along with the unscrupulous beneficiaries thereof.”

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