New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday again extended the stay on declaration of the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) 2015 results.


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The apex court reserved its order on pleas seeking cancellation of the AIPMT for alleged large-scale irregularities till June 15.


The SC vacation bench of Justices RK Agrawal and Amitava Roy said that it will pass the order on Monday (June 15).


The court, however, indicated it may cancel the test as it said that an exam which has become suspect in people's minds cannot be held valid.


"The examination stands vitiated even if one student is being benefited illegally,” the bench noted.


"We are not holding CBSE guilty as such. Taking into consideration the past such incidents, CBSE ought to have been cognisant of these things. It had been happening for last two to three years," it said.


Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, appearing for the CBSE, opposed the contentions seeking cancellation of the test, saying, "6.3 lakh students cannot be made to take the exam afresh when only 44 students have been found involved in taking benefits through unfair means."


The apex court had on Monday earlier this week extended the stay on declaration of the results till today.


Earlier, the vacation bench had asked Haryana Police to file a fresh report indicating the number of beneficiaries of the alleged irregularities in the pre-medical examination.


It had also asked police to identify as many candidates as possible who had been benefited from the alleged leak.


The CBSE was to declare the results of the AIPMT, taken by over six lakh students on May 3, on June 5.


“We are fully aware of all this. The bigger issue is that the sanctity of the examination is under suspicion. We want to be doubly sure that there is no alternative but to order re-conduct of the examination,” the bench had said, adding that it does want to take a decision “in haste”.


At the outset, the counsel for Haryana Police had told the court that so far 12 persons have been arrested in the case and 25 students have been identified as beneficiaries of the alleged racket.


One of the police officers had told the bench that there are two students among the arrested persons and students of at least 10 states were involved in it.


The police, however, had expressed inability in getting the exact details of beneficiaries on the ground that SIM cards, used in passing on question papers and the answer keys, were procured by using fake and forged ID cards.


Large-scale irregularities including leakage of answer keys for this year’s AIPMT exam came to the light on the exam day, with the investigators informing the court that the answer keys of 123 questions were transmitted through 75 mobile phones in states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Haryana.


(With PTI inputs)