Chennai: The Madras high court while refusing to stay the cancellation of 12th Standard board exams ordered notice to the State on a plea which sought to quash the Government order issued by Department of School Education cancelling the 12th standard exams for 2020-21 batch owing to the spread of Covid-19.
The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy before whom a plea in this regard came up refused to grant any kind of stay on the impugned order as sought for by the petitioner’s counsel and merely posted the plea to June 23 for further hearing.
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The petitioner Ramkumar Adityan while seeking to withdraw the cancellation of 12th standard exams sought to conduct two months refresher classes for such students and conduct final examinations. The plea also sought to give opportunity to those who want to write the examination and announce the results well ahead of admissions to all the UG Degree courses in the Central and State Educational Institutions.
