NEW DELHI: Pan-India examinations have of late been witnessing an uncanny trend of getting vetted by the SC, which on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a probe into hurried cancellation of UGC-NET on June 19 following certain social media messages about question paper leak.
A PIL petitioner through senior advocate Devashish Bharuka told a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra that the CBI has now given a report that the social media messages about alleged leakage of question paper were fake ones.”UGC did not even check the veracity of the claims and hurriedly cancelled the Jun 18 test a day later,” he said.
The CJI-led bench said nearly 9 lakh students are appearing for the UGC-NET examination. “We are not in a perfect world. If we entertain this petition, it will result in utter chaos and create uncertainties for 9 lakh candidates. Sometimes, we (the courts) should exercise restraint. We are just 10 days away from the exam. Candidates must have prepared hard to appear in the examination,” the bench said.
Refusing to intervene with the UGC-NET examination, now scheduled for Aug 21, for determining the eligibility of candidates for ‘assistant professor’ as well as ‘junior research fellowship and assistant professor’ in universities, the bench said the govt might have decided to cancel the UGC-NET exam on June 19 as at that time it was facing the controversy over alleged question paper leak in NEET-UG and did not want to give rise to another controversy.
A PIL petitioner through senior advocate Devashish Bharuka told a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra that the CBI has now given a report that the social media messages about alleged leakage of question paper were fake ones.”UGC did not even check the veracity of the claims and hurriedly cancelled the Jun 18 test a day later,” he said.
The CJI-led bench said nearly 9 lakh students are appearing for the UGC-NET examination. “We are not in a perfect world. If we entertain this petition, it will result in utter chaos and create uncertainties for 9 lakh candidates. Sometimes, we (the courts) should exercise restraint. We are just 10 days away from the exam. Candidates must have prepared hard to appear in the examination,” the bench said.
Refusing to intervene with the UGC-NET examination, now scheduled for Aug 21, for determining the eligibility of candidates for ‘assistant professor’ as well as ‘junior research fellowship and assistant professor’ in universities, the bench said the govt might have decided to cancel the UGC-NET exam on June 19 as at that time it was facing the controversy over alleged question paper leak in NEET-UG and did not want to give rise to another controversy.
