AIPMT exam: Supreme Court gives CBSE more time for re-test; results to be declared by Aug 17

However, a bench led by Justice R K Agrawal allowed the CBSE’s plea to grant it more time to conduct the re-test.

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Calling it “impossible” to conduct the re-test within four weeks, the CBSE had approached the court seeking extension of the deadline set by it while scrapping the AIPMT in view of gross irregularities.

CBSE had said it is impossible to re-conduct the exam within four weeks and that the CBSE would require at least three months to do so.

The court had set this time frame in its judgment after rejecting the CBSE’s contention that scrapping the exam would disturb the entire academic itinerary and that it would need at least three months for a countrywide re-test.

The bench had on June 15 cancelled the AIPMT, stating the examination conducted on May 3 has become a “suspect” after it was “vitiated to the core by use of deceitful means and measures to benefit” some candidates.

Directing the re-test, it held that “if such an examination is saved, merit would be a casualty generating a sense of frustration in the genuine students, with aversion to the concept of examination.”