Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the State Government not to declare the results of II PU fresher candidates till the expert committee decides on the promotion policy.

A Division Bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar handed the interim order on a PIL filed by S.V. Singre Gowda, Managing Trustee of Gnana Mandira Education Trust, Bengaluru.

The petitioner had questioned the decision of the Karnataka authorities to advertise solely recent/common college students without holding exams and conduct exams for repeaters and personal candidates when COVD-19 pandemic eases.

The Bench handed the order after being knowledgeable that the Government has arranged a 12-member professional committee to counsel methodology to be utilised for promoting repeaters of II PU if the exams weren’t be carried out for them on the traces of freshers/common college students of II PU within the tutorial 12 months 2020-21.

As the petitioner submitted the plea on behalf of personal candidates, as a lot of them might not have appeared for the primary 12 months PU exams, the Bench directed the Government to instruct the professional committee to look at the methodology to be utilised to advertise all different classes of repeater college students without holding exams for the II PU programmes.