The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was mulling a policy to accommodate private students from West Asia whose Class 12 results could not be declared by CBSE due to the prevailing security situation in the region.
“This is a wider issue, the government is considering laying down some policy for similarly situated students,” Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justice AG Masih and Justice Vijay Bisnoi.
The bench deferred to June 22 the hearing on a petition filed by Pranshu Jigarkumar Patel, an overseas student from Saudi Arabia, seeking directions to CBSE to declare his class 12 improvement examination result at Mehta’s request.
“This is about the career of a child; he will miss all his admissions…Whatever it is, burn the midnight oil,” the Supreme Court had said on June 8 while issuing notice to CBSE and its Regional Officer on Patel’s petition seeking declaration of his Class 12 improvement examination result.
Petitioner has challenged CBSE’s failure to declare his result despite an assessment scheme framed for students whose examinations in several Gulf countries were cancelled because of the prevailing security situation in the region.
When CBSE declared Class 12 results on May 13, 2026, Patel’s result was not declared and his status was shown as “RL” (Result Later), the petitioner submitted.
He said his representations sent to CBSE on May 17, May 21 and May 30 seeking a resolution of the issue went un-responded.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had refused to entertain the plea.
Patel submitted that the delay has affected his higher education plans and his admission to the BTech (Computer Science and AI) programme at Dhirubhai Ambani University, Gandhinagar where he was required to update his Class 12 result status by June 1, 2026. In the absence of declaration of result by the CBSE, the admission process remained incomplete and he was unable to complete apply to other institutions.
Contending that private candidates affected by the cancellation of examinations in West Asian countries due to war-related tensions were entitled to the benefit of CBSE’s special assessment scheme, he urged the top court to direct CBSE to declare his Class 12 Improvement Examination result.
Patel — who appeared as a private candidate in the 2026 Class 12 Improvement Examination from Al Jubail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — had registered for improvement in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Computer Science after appearing in the Class 12 examination in 2025.
As CBSE cancelled several Class 12 examinations in Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE owing to war-related tensions, Patel was able to take only Physics and Chemistry examinations, while Mathematics, English and Computer Science examinations were cancelled.
CBSE issued a notification on March 27, 2026, laying down an “Assessment Scheme for Declaration of Results of Class 12 in West Asian Countries”, which covered students whose examinations remained pending due to cancellations.
Such students with pending examinations were to be assessed on the basis of their performance in quarterly examinations, half-yearly examinations and final pre-board examinations, with the best of the three scores being considered for the final result based on school records.
The petitioner — who studied at the International Indian School, Al Jubail — sought a direction to CBSE to declare his result on the basis of the March 27 assessment scheme by obtaining his quarterly, half-yearly and pre-board examination records from his school. Alternatively, he has sought a direction for conduct of special examinations in Mathematics, English and Computer Science.
Patel said that no clarification was provided if private candidates appearing for improvement examinations are covered by the assessment scheme.
The plea contended that the non-declaration of his result has jeopardised his higher education prospects and deprived him of admission opportunities.
The petition stated that Patel appeared as a private candidate in the CBSE Class 12 improvement examination, 2026, from Al Jubail in Saudi Arabia in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and Computer Science.
Patel claimed that his representations sent to CBSE on May 17, May 21 and May 30 seeking a resolution of the issue went unanswered.
CBSE cancelled the Class 12 board examinations in seven Middle Eastern countries (Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE) due to escalating tensions amid the Iran-Israel-US conflict.
