A Bench of justices RK Agrawal and AM <g data-gr-id="34">Sapre</g> decided to take up a petition of the CBSE, seeking reconsideration of the Apex Court's June 15 order to hold <g data-gr-id="35">afresh</g> the AIPMT-2915 in four weeks after Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar mentioned the matter before it. Kumar told the Apex Court that it is impossible to re-conduct the exam within the time frame decided by the Supreme Court. He said the board (CBSE) was overburdened with work of conducting seven exams simultaneously and it needed at least three months time to conduct the exam <g data-gr-id="36">afresh</g>.
The Supreme Court had on June 15 scrapped the AIPMT-2015 and had ordered re-conduct of the examination within four weeks. The Apex Court had directed the re-examination in view of large-scale cheating in the test with students getting answers in the examination hall at many places.
While reserving its order on June 12, the court had said the examination stands vitiated even if one student is being benefited illegally. It had said that CBSE could not be held guilty as such but taking into consideration the past incidents, "CBSE ought to have been <g data-gr-id="27">cognisant</g> of these things."
CBSE, however, had opposed the contentions seeking cancellation of the test, saying, "About 6.3 lakh students cannot be made to take the exam <g data-gr-id="22">afresh</g> when only 44 students have been found involved in taking benefits through unfair means."
Earlier, the vacation Bench had asked the 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 candidates who had benefited from the alleged leak.