Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 21:The State High Court today directed the Board of School Education (BOSE) to pay Rs two lakh as token compensation within four weeks to a student for cancelling her examination.
Disposing of a petition filed by a class 10 student, a single bench of the High Court comprising Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar directed the BOSE chairman and secretary to pay the amount to the student as it was due to mistake of the board that the student had lost one year of her educational career for which she cannot be adequately compensated.
“(However),in order to ensure that no student suffers because of mistake or lapse of any officers of the board, it (BOSE) should have put a mechanism in place to verify the matter at their own level before cancelling her examination,” the bench said.
Rapping the BOSE for its negligence, the court further observed that paying token compensation would act as deterrent in future and the BOSE authorities would perform their function in a manner which would not affect the future of any candidate.
BOSE had declared “examination cancelled” in its result notification, dated 30-03-2012, of a girl student when she had appeared in examination conducted in session 2011 despite the Superintendent in-charge of the examination centre having communicated to the BOSE Assistant Secretary that “no such case was registered in the centre.”
The petitioner was seeking declaration of the result and compensation for having wasted her one year, stating that she could have suffered depression because of the negligence of the BOSE.
The petitioner had also pleaded that during the pendency of the writ BOSE declared her result as passed on April 3 this year in the said examination.
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