SSC paper leak: High Court orders declaration of results of debarred student

HYDERABAD: Telangana High Court, which had earlier allowed a debarred student in the SSC Hindi question paper leak case to write the examinations, now directed the SSC Board to declare the results, saving the student from losing an academic year.

The Court passed the orders while dealing with a petition filed by Balmuri Venkat, State president of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI). The High Court in April allowed Harish, a tenth-standard student who was debarred in the SSC paper leak case, to continue writing the rest of the exams.

Harish, a student of ZPHS in Kamlapur of Hanmakonda district, was debarred for five years by the authorities on the charges of leaking a Hindi paper. His question paper was used to click pictures and circulate on Whatsapp groups. The student’s father alleged that someone had forcefully taken the paper from his son while he was writing the Hindi exam and he was debarred for no fault.

With the High Court lifting the ban slapped on him by the education authorities, Harish wrote the general science and social sciences papers. The present orders would enable him to come out of the result-withheld category and could wish to complete the SSC examination despite the mental agony he had undergone.