India, June 13 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to direct the reopening of CBSE's portal for the re-evaluation of class 12 answer sheets on a PIL by the Congress' student wing.

A vacation bench of Justices Neena Bansal, Krishna and Madhu Jain observed that an individual student was free to take appropriate action if aggrieved and that reopening the portal - which was operational from June 2 to 7 -would delay the entire process of result declaration.

"For you, it is one week, but the whole process gets delayed by a month... You are not understanding. It is not one step," remarked the bench. "I am not giving further directions. Whoever is aggrieved, let the individual approach," it further said.

As the counsel appearing for the ...