Acting on a plea filed by a student in Saudi Arabia, the Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notices to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and its concerned regional officer directing them to declare his Class 12 improvement examination results.
An SC bench comprising Justices Manmohan and Vijay Bishnoi has agreed to examine this plea and said it is about the career of petitioner.
"This is about the career of a child, he will miss all his admissions... Whatever it is, burn the midnight oil," the bench orally remarked while directing CBSE's counsel to seek instructions in the matter.
The top court was hearing a plea filed by Pransu Jigarkumar Patel, who challenged the CBSE's failure to declare his result despite an assessment scheme having been framed for students affected by the cancellation of examinations in several Gulf countries.
The petition contended that the non-declaration of his result had jeopardised his higher education prospects and deprived him of admission opportunities.
According to the plea, Patel appeared as a private candidate in the CBSE Class 12 Improvement Examination 2026 from Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Computer Science.
Patel further claimed that his representations to the CBSE on May 17, May 21 and May 30 seeking resolution of the issue received no response.
The CBSE had cancelled Class 12 board examinations in seven Middle Eastern countries — Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — owing to escalating regional tensions arising from the Iran-Israel-US conflict.