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Question marks over Bismay’s results

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CUTTACK: Uncertainty still continues over the outcome of eight-year-old wonder kid Millennium Bismay’s matriculation results as his plea could not come up for hearing in the Orissa High Court on Tuesday due to absence of an appropriate bench. The boy had approached the court seeking a direction to the State Board of Secondary Education (BSE) to declare his results. He was allowed to sit for the exams by the HC in March this year after the BSE and State Government denied him the opportunity on the ground that he was underage.

The boy’s case was listed for hearing in the bench of Justice I.M. Quddusi and Justice Kumari Sanju Panda. But the bench refused to hear the case saying: “The Chief Justice had ordered that the same bench which had earlier allowed the boy to sit for the matriculation examinations would hear the miscellaneous case arising out of the original writ petition.”

The bench comprising Justice I M Quddusi and Justice A K Samantray in March this year had allowed the boy to sit for the exams but had restrained the BSE from publishing his results without the leave of the court. Bismay’s counsel Ashok Mohapatra however expressed confidence that the appropriate bench is likely to sit on Friday and he would make a mention of the case before the concerned bench on that day.

He said that the HC has directed the BSE counsel to keep in his custody the evaluated answer sheets of the boy in a sealed cover. Seeking a clearance from HC for declaration of his results, the wonder kid from Balasore however, did not lose hope and said he has full faith on God and the Court. “As I am confident of securing around 85 per cent of marks, I want to study Plus II science as a regular student. But the delay in publication of my results may deprive me from taking admission any college this year,” the boy said.

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