Breaking: CA Examination: Opt Out Option Will Be With The Candidate, You Have To Respect It: Supreme Court To ICAI [LIVE UPDATES]

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30 Jun 2021 10:37 AM IST

  • Breaking: CA Examination: Opt Out Option Will Be With The Candidate, You Have To Respect It: Supreme Court To ICAI [LIVE UPDATES]

    A Three Judge Bench of Supreme Court comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose has issued the following directions in the CA Exams matter today.(i) A candidate who has suffered Covid personally or any of his family members, so certified by a registered medical practitioner, as a result of which he is unable to appear for exam, or disabled from preparing for the...

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    • 30 Jun 2021 12:06 PM IST

      Arora: Third is about exam functionaries. They said that only they must carry a No Risk sign on Aarogya Setu. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:06 PM IST

      Arora: Second is about SOP. The only thing we want to flag is that sometimes schools and all are used for events. They should take concern of that. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:06 PM IST

      Arora: The second issue is that those candidates who are residing in zones out of which they can’t travel, that needs a recognition. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:06 PM IST

      Arora: What they don’t take into account is that if there are members of the same family who are residing in the same house -

      Bench: We have already spent time on this.

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:05 PM IST

      Arora: What they want is now certificate by registered medical practitioner and RTPCR. I also suffered from COVID. I have my prescriptions, but I don’t have my report. Now they’re asking for both the things.

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:05 PM IST

      Arora: Please turn to the paragraph. “Recently” is very ambiguous and if we could include the period of the second wave which is April, that would be much better. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:04 PM IST

      Arora: Opt out option is to be given to a candidate who has suffered or his family has suffered due to COVID. The note doesn’t capture it. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:03 PM IST

      Arora: We have gone through the note and it doesn’t capture what you categorically directed. 

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:03 PM IST

      Bench: Let the other side respond.

    • 30 Jun 2021 12:02 PM IST

      Srinivasan: I have submitted a note capturing the seven points you directed us. 

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