Supreme Court of India

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education v. Amit and Anr.

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 106
Bench N. Santosh Hegde and Bisheshwar Prasad Singh JJ.
Decided 9 July 2002

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the judgment we may observe that the grant of grace marks being a matter of concession and which tends to dilute academic standards, Regulations dealing with grant of grace marks should not be G generously and liberally construed.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Board Regulations, 1977-Regulation 52 (3)(a) Note 1 sub-clause 2(d) and Note 2 sub-clause (3) -Benefit of grant of grace marks-Benefit of combined passing-Claim of­ Held, candidate not entitled to the benefit of combined passing as it refers to marks actually obtained and not the marks gained after grant of grace marks. Respondent No.1 having declared failed in Secondary School Certificate Examination, applied to the appellant-Board for grant of 20 grace marks under sub-clause 2(d) under Note 1 of clause (3)(a) of Regulation 52 of Maharashtra

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