‘Fault lies with the colleges’: Telangana HC directs intermediate board to allow 2 Class 12 students to take final exam

The court was dealing with two writ appeals filed by Pallam Shreetan Aryan and Akshara Reddy Valluru, both of whom joined their respective colleges in Class 12 on transfer from another college.

Last week, a single-judge bench refused to issue any specific direction to the Board to register them to face the final-year exams starting February 26.

During the hearing Thursday, the colleges admitted that due to their own mistake, they failed to register the students on the board’s portal by the original deadline of August 20, 2025, or the extended deadline of September 17, 2025.

The counsels for the two students informed the court that their clients were completely in the dark about this aspect and realised that their names had not been registered with the board only when hall tickets were issued to other students.

The Board, meanwhile, submitted that the examination process was at an advanced stage and that its regulations did not permit registration beyond the cut-off date, as a large number of processes are involved in conducting the exams. The Board expressed concern that granting relief might lead to a flood of similar requests.

“It is also not in dispute that the fault lies with the colleges and not with the appellants. If the appellants are not allowed to register and take the examinations, they would lose one precious year of their academic career for the fault of the colleges,” the bench observed. “It is not in dispute that the admission of the appellants is within the intake capacity of the colleges.”

The bench also stressed that in a case such as this, where the college was at fault, the apprehension of the Board “that flood gates would open would not restrain the court from granting equitable relief to the appellants who have not committed any fault on their part in the entire state of affairs.”

The bench then disposed of the appeal.