PATNA HIGH COURT ISSUES JUDGMENT ON SAMEER RAJ AND ANR. V/S THE UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

PATNA, India, Feb. 25 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Jan. 26:

1. Heard Mr. Y. C. Verma, learned Senior Advocate for the petitioners and Mr. Vinay Krishna Tripathy, learned Advocate for the Central Board of Secondary Education and Mr. Sanjay Kumar, learned Advocate for the State.

2. This is the third round of litigation led by a student Sameer Raj @ Sameer Raj Sinha, who was duly admitted in B.D. Public School, Buddha Colony, Patna; a school duly affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (in short 'CBSE') on 13.04.2018 at the age of 5 years, 3 months and 25 days, in Class-IV. After having performed well in the successive classes, finally, the petitioner was promoted to ClassIX at the age of ten years and t...