Supreme Court cancels AIPMT ; CBSE asked to conduct fresh exams within 4 weeks
Source: The Sangai Express / Courtesy ; Times News Network

New Delhi, June 15 2015 : The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the AIPMT 2015 conducted by CBSE on May 3 due to large-scale cheating across the country at various centres.

A bench of Justices RK Agrawal and Amitava Roy directed the CBSE to conduct fresh test within four weeks.

Six thousand plus students from Manipur sat for the pre-medical test this year.

The CBSE conducts AIPMT for admission to MBBS courses in medical colleges across India.

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As a result of the SC's cancellation of AIPMT, over 6.3 lakh medical aspiring students will have to take fresh test to get admission in colleges.

The Court scrapped the paper after it came to light that many students across the country managed to take electronic devices with them inside exam hall and answers were transmitted to them on the device from outside.

The Court said that CBSE has been outwitted by tech-savvy students who manipulated the exam process.

The re-examination was ordered after police failed to track out all the erring students.

The Court said that entire exam process stood vitiated due to the cheating leaving it with no option but to scrap the exam.

It said that there would be huge injustice to genuine students who burnt the midnight oil to crack the examination but failed to get through the exam due to manipulation and some other undeserving students managed to get admission.

CBSE says AIMPT retest not possible in four weeks : The Central Board of Secondary Education said on Monday that it will approach the SC to seek more time to conduct AIPMT 2015, saying it is not possible to conduct the retest in four weeks.

The board said that it will move the apex Court to explain that the test-preparation for AIPMT takes seven months.

The SC on Monday cancelled the AIPMT 2015 and ordered CBSE to hold the retest within four weeks.

Over 6.3 lakhs took the test conducted by CBSE on May 3, 2015 .

Speaking to the Times of India, Satbir Bedi, officiating Chairman, CBSE, said: "It is not feasible to conduct such an exam in a month time.

We start preparation for the AIMPT from August.

A minimum of seven months is needed for preparation." Earlier, the SC bench had asked Haryana police to file a fresh report indicating the number of beneficiaries of the alleged irregularities in the pre-medical examination following allegations of paper leak.

The CBSE initially denied the incidents of leak.

The SC also asked the police to identify as many candidates as possible who had been benefited from the alleged leak.

The board was scheduled to declare the results on June 5, which the SC stayed.

On Monday, the Court asked CBSE to hold the retest within four weeks while cancelling the test held on May 3.According to Bedi, the board will meet and decide the future course of action, while outrightly saying that retest in four weeks is not possible.

"The board will explain to the Court that more time will be needed to conduct the exam" .

According to sources in AIMPT cell in CBSE, the earliest the board can conduct the exam will be in November 2015 .