The Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur directed the respondent-CBSE to declare the result of the petitioner, a Class XII student, within a period of one week. The petitioner was seeking directions against the respondents to allow him to participate in the improvement examination of Chemistry, as he had failed in that subject, and to declare his result for the said examination.
The petitioner contended that for appearing in the aforesaid subject, he had deposited the requisite charges of Rs. 300/- for the improvement examination paper in the school and a receipt in this regard was issued by the school, but in spite of this, the petitioner was not allowed to appear in the aforesaid examination by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which was scheduled to be held on 15.07.2025. The petitioner further submitted that when the matter was inquired from the school, he came to know that the examination form was not forwarded by the school authorities to the CBSE. It was argued that there was no fault on his part, as he had already submitted his examination form with the requisite fee, and that it was the bounden duty of the school to forward the examination form to the CBSE, and, therefore, the petitioner approached the Court for the redressal of his grievances.
On the contrary, the CBSE, submitted that the petitioner’s examination form for the Chemistry improvement paper was never received from the school despite three reminders sent on 21.05.2025, 05.06.2025 and 16.06.2025, and therefore he was not allowed to appear. It was stated that pursuant to the Court’s interim order dated 14.07.2025, the petitioner was permitted to take the exam, though CBSE was restrained from declaring the result without prior permission. The counsel for the school admitted that due to a bona fide mistake the form was not forwarded, and informed that compensation of Rs. 1,10,000/- had been paid to the petitioner’s father, assuring that such error would not occur in future.
Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed that it was surprising on the part of the school authorities to have withheld the examination form of the petitioner and not forwarded the same to the CBSE despite repeated reminders issued by the Board, not once but thrice. Such a casual and negligent approach on the part of the school amounted to spoiling the future and one academic year of the petitioner, besides causing him harassment and mental agony by creating obstacles in his career. The Court noted that on account of this gross negligence, not only had the petitioner suffered, but the CBSE had also been unnecessarily dragged into litigation and compelled to incur expenses despite there being no fault on its part. However, since the school had already compensated the petitioner by paying Rs. 1,10,000/- through demand draft, which was received by the petitioner’s father present in Court, and as the petitioner had already been permitted to appear in the repeat Chemistry paper under the interim order dated 14.07.2025, the writ petition was disposed of with a direction to the CBSE to declare the result of the petitioner within one week. The stay application and all pending applications were also disposed of accordingly.
Appearances:
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Anurag Shukla
For Respondent(s) : Mr. M.S.Raghav
Mr. Aditya Pareek
