Responding to a clutch of petitions filed by students who have charged the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) with gross negligence,justice B Chandra Kumar of the high court on Friday directed that the physics paper-II supplementary exam be conducted again for those students who paid the fee but did not manage to obtain hall tickets.
This exercise should be completed as early as possible,the judge said.
The judge also ordered BIE to declare results in time for the students to be able to apply to institutes like IIT and BITS.
He,however,directed the board to issue a separate schedule for the students who could not write the exam on May 16 due to delay in the dispatch of hall tickets.
It is made clear that students and their parents should not be made to suffer for no fault of theirs.
Hence,the BIE is hereby directed to consider their case sympathetically and conduct re-examination for physics paper-II, ruled the judge.
Thousands of students from all over the state could not write their physics supplementary test on May 16 due to non-issuance of hall tickets.
The students contended that they failed to appear for the physics paper on May 16 despite having paid fees in time at their respective colleges and demanded that the physics examination be held again.
Also on Friday,justice Chandra Kumar directed authorities to restore the police cover to YSR Congress leader Bhooma Nagi Reddy.
The judge found fault with the officials for having taken an unilateral decision in the matter.