Pleas against holding board exams dismissed

Chennai

A division bench comprising Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice R Suresh Kumar had observed on June 8 that it was prima facie satisfied that the government decision to conduct exams from June 15 must be stayed as it cannot put the lives of more than nine lakh students at stake, while the government insisted that it was the right time as experts’ opinion had indicated that COVID-19 cases might rise in the next two months. However, in a complete turnaround, the government cancelled the exams and declared all students to be promoted. Following this, when the adjourned pleas came up for hearing on Thursday, the bench recorded the government’s declaration of cancelling the exams and termed the pleas as infructuous before disposing them of.