News18: New Delhi: Tuesday, September 11, 2018.
The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to
the CBSE on a plea seeking contempt action against the board for allegedly
"disobeying" the top court's order and charging exorbitant fees of up
to Rs 1,200 from students for obtaining copies of evaluated answer-sheets.
A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin
Sinha and K M Joseph asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to
respond to the plea within six weeks.
The contempt plea has alleged that the
CBSE has wilfully and deliberately disobeyed the directions of the apex court,
which had in 2016 said that the board should 'scrupulously' follow its 2011
verdict holding that the students have the fundamental and legal right to
access their evaluated answer-sheets under the Right to Information Act.
It has claimed that despite the apex
court's direction, the CBSE had published a notification prescribing fee of Rs
1,000 and Rs 1,200 for students of Class 10th and 12th respectively to obtain
the evaluated answer-sheets.
The petition has claimed that as per the
court's direction, the fee prescribed under the 2012 RTI Rules should be
charged from the students for obtaining the answer-sheets.
It sought setting aside of the CBSE
notification prescribing fee of Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,200 for the students for
obtaining copies of the evaluated answer-sheets.
The plea has also sought a direction to
the CBSE to provide copies of evaluated answer-sheets to the examinees only as
per provisions of the RTI Act, 2005 and at the fees prescribed under 2012
Rules.