The Supreme Court has scrapped the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) 2015 and ordered re-conduct of the examination within four weeks. Now more than 6.3 lakh students will have to take fresh test. The top court has also ordered the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to conduct fresh exams within four weeks. The apex court directed the re-examination in view of large-scale cheating in the test with students getting answers in the examination hall at many places.

“The examination has become suspect… There can’t be a compromise at any cost,” said a bench of Justice RK Agrawal and Justice Amitava Roy.

The petitioners had sought cancellation of the exam, citing a report by the Haryana Police which said that 44 beneficiaries of the leak had already been identified. The report also said that number was likely to go up. The police suspect there are around 700 students who benefitted from the paper leak.

The court had said, “The bigger issue is that the sanctity of the examination is under suspicion. We want to be doubly sure that there is no alternative but to order re-conduct of the exam,” adding that it did not want to take a decision “in haste”.