The petitioner mentioned over 17 lakh college students had appeared for the Class 12 exams in Might 2026, together with his son, whose reply sheet couldn’t be uploaded on the Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) web site. File picture for representational functions solely.
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The Union authorities on Friday (August 21, 2026) advised the Supreme Courtroom that it can’t take into account giving grace marks to college students who raised discrepancies within the Central Board of Secondary Training’s (CBSE) On-Display screen Marking (OSM) of Class 12 reply sheets in 2026.
A one-week window was opened for re-evaluation and 1.68 lakh college students had utilized for change of their marks, Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta mentioned, showing earlier than a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant.
“Now, they (petitioners) are asking for grace marks, that isn’t attainable,” Mr. Mehta, for the Centre, mentioned.
Advocate Laxmikant Matadan Shukla, representing petitioner Rakesh Binjola, mentioned college students who had suffered to because of defective OSM analysis have gone on to clear different entrance exams. Nonetheless, they have been caught for not having scored the required minimal qualifying marks within the Class 12 exams. “The quantity is big. Per week is just too much less,” Mr. Shukla submitted.
He mentioned that many college students who had utilized for re-evaluation didn’t obtain their revised reply sheets.
Mr. Mehta mentioned the Centre didn’t view the litigation as an adversarial one, nonetheless, the petitioners appeared to have missed their probability through the one week when the window was opened to just accept purposes for re-evaluation.
The highest court docket requested the federal government to file an affidavit detailing the remedial measures taken following the recognizing of irregularities within the OSM-valued reply sheets. The petitioner was instructed to file a rejoinder mentioning circumstances by which college students searching for re-evaluation couldn’t entry the portal because of infrastructural deficiencies, and the circumstances of those that have been capable of give their reply sheets for re-evaluation, however didn’t obtain their revised reply sheets.
The court docket had earlier sought a status report from the government detailing the progress made by a one-member probe committee of retired IAS officer and chairperson of the Capability Constructing Fee, S. Radha Chauhan, tasked to unearth the explanations behind the technical defects.
Mr. Binjola has sought a good and affordable inquiry into the “patent irregularities” discovered within the OSM analysis system. The petition sought particular person duty to be fastened for a failure which affected a lot of college students in India and overseas.
He mentioned over 17 lakh college students had appeared for the Class 12 exams in Might 2026, together with his son, whose reply sheet couldn’t be uploaded on the Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) web site.
The petition had listed a number of irregularities, together with the illegible scanning of reply sheet pages and unchecked solutions exhibiting “systematic negligence/failure leading to a breach of obligation of care”.
“Irregularities within the OSM checking system has affected a lot of college students, recording an enormous drop within the general move share this 12 months to 85.2% – a drop of three.19 share factors from final 12 months and the bottom stage seen up to now seven years,” the petition has mentioned.
Revealed – August 21, 2026 01:00 pm IST
