Kerala HC expresses concern over non-publication of SSLC exam results of students accused in Shahbas murder

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday orally asked why the SSLC examination results of the students accused in the murder of 15-year-old Shahbas have not been published.

When the bail petitions of the students came up for hearing, Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas wondered how could the authorities delay publishing their results. Why the students had to move the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to get their results published. Publishing the results had nothing to do with the offence committed by them. If they had written the examination, the results had to be published, the court orally observed.

The court made the oral observations when the counsel for the students submitted that the results had not been published despite a directive from the child rights commission. However, the court orally observed that since it was an order of the child rights commission, they would have to move the High Court separately challenging the inaction of the authorities.