On a request by the NSUI counsel, the Delhi High Court listed the matter for hearing before the roster bench in July. File
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The Delhi High Court on Friday (June 12, 2026) declined to direct the reopening of CBSE’s portal for the re-evaluation of class 12 answer sheets on a petition by the Congress’ student wing.A vacation bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna and Justice Madhu Jain observed that an individual student was free to take appropriate action if aggrieved and that reopening the portal, which was operational from June 2-7, would delay the entire process of result declaration.“For you, it is one week, but the whole process gets delayed by a month...It is not one step,” the Bench remarked, adding, “I am not giving further directions. Whoever is aggrieved, let the individual approach”.As the National Students’ Union of India’s (NSUI) counsel urged the court to order reopening of the portal for a few more days, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, appearing for the authorities, submitted that the aggrieved students have already submitted their requests and the disputed answer sheets are being considered.Mr Mehta said the NSUI’s public interest litigation (PIL) was based on “very general assumptions” and which could, if allowed, adversely affect the undergraduate admission of more than 17 lakh students.The SG added that the portal’s deadline can’t be extended at the petitioner’s behest, as it would not be in the interest of students. Mr. Mehta said the deadline was earlier extended by a day, and the portal was closed on June 7 instead of June 6.“The system has operated for those who wanted to apply... More than 1.67 lakh students have requested, and 3.8 lakh answer sheets are being examined,” the SG said.“Students who were aggrieved have come before us. This is not a small figure. This means the portal has worked,” he added.Mr Mehta also said that prior to the verification and re-evaluation platform, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) opened a portal from May 19 to 25 for students to obtain their scanned answer sheets, pursuant to which around 4 lakh students requested more than 11 lakh answer sheets.The NSUI’s petition had also sought an independent inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the on-screen marking (OSM) system for class 12 exam.The petition has further sought manual rechecking and physical verification of answer sheets of aggrieved students.In the petition, the NSUI has said the sharp decline in overall performance in this year’s class 12 results has led to widespread concern among students and parents regarding the fairness, consistency and reliability of the OSM system, especially in the light of several requests for scanned answer books and complaints on discrepancies and technical issues acknowledged by the CBSE.It asserted that concerns around OSM were not confined to a “small set of students” and those whose answer sheets were affected by scanning defects, mismatch errors or other technical failures cannot be made to suffer because of deficiencies in the system. Published - June 12, 2026 05:55 pm IST
