India, June 7 -- The Class 12 student whose blog set off a week of upheaval at the CBSE used the board's own deadline reminder to needle it on Sunday, asking it to extend the re-evaluation window because he had been "busy this week exposing you".

Sarthak Sidhant, a student and blogger from Ranchi, Jharkhand, was replying on X to a CBSE post telling Class 12 candidates that June 7 was the last day to apply for verification and re-evaluation of their answer sheets. The portal will be open till 11.59 pm, June 7, a deadline the board had already pushed once, from June 6, amid complaints of portal glitches.

"Can u please extend the deadline please because i was busy this week exposing you," Sathak Sidhant posted as a reply to the CBSE's post...