‘Why only repeaters and private candidates have to appear for II PU exams?’

HC tells Karnataka government to justify its stand

The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday asked the State government whether it can justify its policy of promoting only regular/fresher students of second year pre-university (II PU) courses without holding exams and not applying the same policy for private candidates and repeaters, for whom the government proposes to hold exams when the COVID-19 situation improves. If the government can hold exams for nearly one lakh repeaters and private candidates registered for the II PU exams for 2021, why not the exams be held for the regular/fresher students also, the court asked. A division bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar made these observations orally while ordering issuance of notice to the government on a PIL petition, filed by S.V. Singre Gowda, the managing trustee of Gnana Mandira Education Trust, Bengaluru.