The petitioner, one Khalone Devaiah, moved the top court challenging a Karnataka High Court order that dropped contempt proceedings against concerned officials after it had earlier asked the re-evaluation to be carried out.
The student had scored the following marks in his Pre-University (PU) exams held in 2022: English: 90/100, Kannada: 98/100, Biology: 99/100; and full marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
After accessing copies of the evaluated answer sheets, he calculated that he would gain the mark lost in Biology and 5.5 marks in English. The PU Education Board of the State initially said that there was no case for a change of his marks when he applied for re-evaluation.
He again wrote to them with a detailed representation.
Subsequently, the boy was informed that no change of marks could be made as he had already applied for re-evaluation once, and since there needed to be a difference of 6 marks for a change to be reflected in the grade sheets afresh.
Source: Barandbench
