AIPMT leak: SC says retest will be last resort

R Sedhuraman

Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, May 21

The Supreme Court today said it would ask the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to conduct the All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Test (AIPMT), 2015, afresh only if a large number of students were found to have bought the answers sold by an organised gang on May 3.

“Why 6 lakh students should be asked to take the examination again if only a few hundreds of them were involved in cheating,” a vacation Bench comprising Justices AK Sikri and UU Lalit remarked while hearing three PILs seeking a re-test.

The Bench said the status report of the probe conducted by the Haryana police, which had busted the racket on May 3, showed “substantial progress” had been made, though suspected kingpin Roop Singh Dang was still at large. The police had so far nabbed six of the accused involved in allegedly collecting the question paper, getting it solved by doctors and sending the answers through 75 mobile phones to students who had paid them Rs15-20 lakh each. The next hearing will be on May 26.