New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday remains a decision of the Kerala Government to hold a physical exam for class XI from September 6 because the country continues to report trends in the increase in Covid infection.
Calling the situation in the southern state “worrying”, the APEX court said that children cannot be exposed to risk when the country is accounting because of nearly 70 percent of cases in this country.
“Prima facie we found strength in the filing carried out by the applicant that the state government did not seriously consider the prevailing situation before carrying out the physical examination proposed to be carried out in September this year.
Because we cannot get a satisfying response from the advice for this country in This, we provide interim assistance to keep the offline test to until the next hearing date, “said the justice bench am Khanwilkar, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar.
Covid Pandemi Live UpdateTeth Court has posted the next hearing on September 13.
The bench was hearing an appeal against the command of the Kerala High Court which refused to disturb the decision to hold an offline exam.
Appeal stated that conducting a physical exam when the Covid-19 case was at its peak in the country it was a big risk, especially because children were not vaccinated.
About three lakh students qualified to take the exam.
The overall cases of Kerala have violated the 41-lakh mark in the midst of no disappointed in the Covid situation in the state.
On Thursday, it was reported 32,097 fresh covid cases and 188 deaths.
(With input from PTI)
‘Alarming Covid situation’: SC remains class XI exam in Kerala
