The Supreme Court ruled that the decision to give free marks for the three questions in the first paper of the 2005 scholarship exam that ended last year violates basic human rights.
In order to resolve this problem, the bench ordered the Commissioner General of Examinations to select a suitable recommendation from among the three recommendations presented by the experts and take steps to implement it immediately.
In addition, the persons suspected to be involved in the release of these question papers, the I.G.S.Premathilaka It was also ordered that should pay three million rupees and Chaminda Kumara Ilangasinghe should pay two million rupees as compensation to the government.
After examining four fundamental rights petitions filed by the students and their parents who participated in the examination, the three-member Supreme Court bench consisting of Mr. Yasanta Kodagoda, Mr. Kumuduni Wickramasinghe and Mr. Arjuna Obeysekera announced this decision.
The petitioners had mentioned that due to the early release of three questions in the first paper of the five-year scholarship examination, they are being unfairly treated by the government’s decision to give free marks to all the students who appeared for those three questions.
These petitions had been submitted asking for a verdict that their basic human rights had been violated.
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