(1.) Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. With the consent of the parties, the petition is taken up for final disposal at admission stage.
(2.) The petitioner, a girl student, is challenging the Circular dated 12.08.2020 and Clause 41.2 of Notification of Examination Bye-laws issued by Respondent No.2/Central Board of Secondary Education thereby excluding category of candidates who could not appear for the examination held in February- March, 2020 as regular candidates due to either ailment or any other cogent reason preventing the students from appearing to the said examination.
(3.) Factual matrix , giving rise to the present petition, is as under: