CUTTACK: The Orissa Government on Monday sought some more time to file its counter in the High Court with regard to the writ filed by the eight-year-old wonder kid Millennium Bismay.

The boy from Balasore district without having any formal education but having extraordinary memory power had sought the court intervention to sit for the 2007 matriculation examination that is scheduled sometimes in next month.

Uncertainty continues

Uncertainty still continues for the boy as a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice P.K. Tripathy and Justice R.N. Biswal adjourned the case to be heard on Friday next in the wake of the Government counsel asking for some more time to file the affidavit.

After being denied the opportunity to create a national record of being the youngest matriculate, the boy has moved the Orissa High Court seeking a direction to the State Government to allow him to sit for the examination as a special case.

Although, the court after adjudicating over the case had earlier issued notices to the State Government and the state Board of Secondary Education (BSE) to file counters, the BSE filed its counter affidavit on Monday but no affidavit was filed on behalf of the State Government.

Determined to be the youngest matriculate of the country, the little kid had earlier successfully cleared the pre-test examination of Class X albeit without obtaining any formal education or without attending any school.

He also secured 62 percent in the potential test conducted by the BSE in November last year.

The test was conducted for the boy to ascertain his subject competence and psychological ability.

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