Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court, on Tuesday directed the State Government to reconsider the decision to hold Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) amid the rising Corona cases in the state and also place its decision on record before the court, before 2.30 pm tomorrow.
The KCET is scheduled to be held on July 30 and 31.
“During the last two weeks, every day around 5,000 positive cases are detected in the state and around 1500 cases were reported daily from Bengaluru. here are more than 5000 containment zones in Bengaluru. The SOP of government says that no one is allowed to leave Containment Zones. Moreover, Public transport will not be availabe. There is a possibility of the students missing out on the exams,” the bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Sreenivas Oka maintained and asked the state to place its decision on record by 2.30 pm tomorrow before the court.
The Court passed the order in three writ petitions challenging the decision to hold CET exams.
The writ petitions were filed by- Group of Students and NSUI, Adv Pradeep and Adv Abdullah Mannan Khan.
While the bench observed that the petitioners approached the Court late, at the ’11th hour’, to challenge the decision taken in May, it passed the order taking note of the drastic situation caused by the pandemic.
